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Webster 1913 Edition
Cicatrix
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Ci-ca′trix
,Noun.
pl.
Cicatrices
(#)
. [L.]
(Med.)
The pellicle which forms over a wound or breach of continuity and completes the process of healing in the latter, and which subsequently contracts and becomes white, forming the scar.
Webster 1828 Edition
Cicatrix
CICATRIX
,Definition 2024
cicatrix
cicatrix
English
Noun
cicatrix (plural cicatrixes or cicatrices)
- A scar that remains after the development of new tissue over a recovering wound or sore (also used figuratively).
- 1938, Herbert Xavier, Capricornia, Chapter II, p. 21,
- He stopped to stare at two old men who sat beside the fire, naked and daubed with red and white ochre and adorned about arms and legs and breasts with elaborate systems of cicatrix.
- 1938, Herbert Xavier, Capricornia, Chapter II, p. 21,
Translations
a scar that remains after the development of new tissue
Latin
Etymology
Unknown etymology.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kiˈkaː.triːks/, [kɪˈkaː.triːks]
Noun
cicātrīx f (genitive cicātrīcis); third declension
Inflection
Third declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | cicātrīx | cicātrīcēs |
| genitive | cicātrīcis | cicātrīcum |
| dative | cicātrīcī | cicātrīcibus |
| accusative | cicātrīcem | cicātrīcēs |
| ablative | cicātrīce | cicātrīcibus |
| vocative | cicātrīx | cicātrīcēs |
Related terms
- cicātrīcōsus
Descendants
References
- cicatrix in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cicatrix in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cicatrix”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- wounds (scars) on the breast: vulnera (cicatrices) adversa (opp. aversa)
- to open an old wound: refricare vulnus, cicatricem obductam
- wounds (scars) on the breast: vulnera (cicatrices) adversa (opp. aversa)