cicatrices

Variant of cicatrix

noun pl. cicatrices or cicatrixes

  1. Med. the contracted fibrous tissue at the place where a wound has healed; scar
  2. Bot.
    1. the scar left on a stem where a branch, leaf, etc. was once attached
    2. the mark left where a wound has healed on a tree or plant
    3. hilum (sense 2a)

Origin: ME cicatrice < OFr < L cicatrix, a scar

Also cicatrice

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