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‖ cicatrix|sɪˈkeɪtrɪks, ˈsɪkətrɪks|
Pl. cicatrices |sɪkəˈtraɪsiːz|.
[a. L. cicātrix a scar. In scientific use it takes the place of cicatrice.]
1. Pathol. The scar or seam remaining after a wound, sore, or ulcer is healed. Also fig.
1641Prynne Antip. 63 Pride the Cicatrix of hearts which ever ascendeth. 1643I. Steer tr. Exp. Chyrurg. viii. 37 This Ointment..produceth a faire Cicatrix. 1804Abernethy Surg. Obs. 95 Below the cicatrix of the wound.
2. Bot. The scar left by the fall of a leaf, frond, etc.; the hilum of seeds.
1826Good Bk. Nat. (1834) I. 166 The hilum or eye..is a cicatrix or umbilicus remaining after the separation of the umbilical cord from the pericarp. 1882Vines Sachs' Bot. 416 Leaving a smooth cicatrix encircled by the stipule.
3. Conch. ‘The glossy impression on the inside of valves to which the muscles of the animal have been attached’ (Craig).
4. Ent. ‘The truncated apex of the basal joint of the antennæ of some Longicorn Coleoptera’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.). |