Crossword clues for cicatrix
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, from Latin cicatrix (accusative cicatricem ) "a scar," which is of unknown origin. Earlier in English as cicatrice (mid-15c.). Related: cicatrical.
Wiktionary
n. A scar that remains after the development of new tissue over a recovering wound or sore (qualifier: also used figuratively).
WordNet
n. a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue [syn: scar, cicatrice]
[also: cicatrices (pl)]
Usage examples of "cicatrix".
Frequently the faces, and other parts of those who recovered, were disfigured by the ghastly cicatrices of healed ulcers.
Perhaps a charnel house of human bodies, dismembered and gory, raw with frightful cicatrices, oozing filth from sick and rotting sores.
He stared at his owner, a swarthy man with crimped and oiled hair, cicatrices on his face.
His head was freshly shaven, his skin ruined with cicatrices and his eyes were a strange pale shade of blue that Tungata found as repulsive and chilling as the stare of a cobra.
An ancient cicatrix sliced jaggedly across the left cheek, tugging the corner of the mouth up into something that might be mistaken for a smile.
Another jagged, cicatrix seamed the left cheek, tugging the corner of the mouth upward in a crooked smile.
There was a scar the size of a nickel on one side of his neck, and a larger cicatrix on the other side of where the Indian arrow had been pushed all the way through.
He touched the jagged cicatrix that seamed his cheek from eye to mouth on the right side of his lean face.
At any rate, there was no sluglike pest hanging from its belly, though Jameson thought he detected an old cicatrix where a tiny bloodsucking head might once have been embedded.
He took a deep breath and lifted his hand to touch the gouged cicatrix that sliced across his face from his good eye to the corner of his mouth.
A vivid cicatrix seamed his right cheek from near the corner of his eye to the corner of his narrow, cruel mouth.
The cicatrix was puckered, purple at its edges, a livid white at the center.
I read such sentences like poesy: ilium, ischium, os innominatum, ecto-cuneiform and cnemial crest, platelets and thrombin, keloid, cicatrix.
At the postmortem the cicatrix in the chest was plainly visible, and in the ascending aorta there was seen a wound, directly in the track of the knife, which was of irregular border and was occupied by a firm coagulum of blood.
The Indians advised me approximately of the depth to which the shaft had penetrated and the direction it took, and judging from the situation of the cicatrix and all the circumstances it was apparent that the arrow-head had passed through the glutei muscles and the obturator foremen and entered the cavity of the bladder, where it remained and formed the nucleus of a stone.