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Cicatrices

Cicatrix \Ci*ca"trix\, n.; 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.

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cicatrices

n. (plural of cicatrix English); scars

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cicatrices

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cicatrix
  1. n. a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue [syn: scar, cicatrice]

  2. [also: cicatrices (pl)]

Usage examples of "cicatrices".

El pescuezo era corto, como de toro, el pecho inexpugnable, los brazos peleadores y largos, la nariz rota, la cara aunque historiada de cicatrices menos importante que el cuerpo, las piernas chuecas como de jinete o de marinero.

Entonces alzó la vista y miró asombrada el rostro moreno y lleno de cicatrices del cimmerio.

Mientras impulsaba el remo, miró fijamente a su alrededor y vio a los indiferentes galeotes con las espaldas llenas de cicatrices que hacían grandes esfuerzos sobre los hediondos bancos, cubiertos con sus propios excrementos.

Beneath the lights the tracery of cicatrices on his torso made a lacelike pattern, scars earned during the early days of his youth when he had learned the skill he was now trying to pass on.

He mounted the ramp at Dumarest's invitation, the silver light turning the cicatrices on his cheeks into a gleaming chiaroscuro.

The reddening of the skin has been observed with the copper-coloured Indians of South America,[2] and even, as it is said, on the white cicatrices left by old wounds on negroes.

It was Lobengula who had granted him the honours of the and una head ring and appointed him commander of one of the elite fighting imp is But now Lobengula was dead, and the young and una impi had been blown to nothing by the Maxim guns on the bank of the Shangani river, and the same Maxim guns had branded him with those deeply dimpled cicatrices upon his trunk.

He sighed and looked down at his big, hard hands, the backs of them so thickly grown with black hair that it was sometimes difficult to see the white cicatrices left by old wounds.

Every hair had been carefully plucked from his pate, which gleamed like polished black marble, and his cheeks were adorned with ritual tattoos, whorls of raised cicatrices that gave him a terrifying appearance.

Her pale white skin is marked by dozens of circular red cicatrices, suction-marks.