cicatrix

plural cicatrixes · plural cicatrices

1. A scar that remains after the development of new tissue over a recovering wound or sore (also used figuratively).

   Past the mountains, Ellay now lay looking scratchy and scarred, a hatchmarked cicatrix on the dusty earth, livid in the threatening light.

   2011, Diane Duane, chapter 13, in Stealing the Elf-King's Roses: The Author's Cut

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   Here the boy was made to strip, and the commissioner, Mr Symonds, found a large cicatrix likely to have been occasioned by such an instrument...

   1853, John C. Cobden, The White Slaves of England, Cincinnati: Derby, page 33

   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, Xavier Herbert, chapter II, in Capricornia, page 21