cicatrixn.
/ˈsɪkətrɪks/, /sᵻˈkeɪtrɪks/, U.S. /ˈsɪkəˌtrɪks/, /səˈkeɪtrɪks/ 1. Pathology. The scar or seam remaining after a wound, sore, or ulcer is healed. Also figurative.
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wama1000
wem1297
arra1300
nirtc1400
scara1425
cicatricec1450
fester?c1475
list1490
stool1601
cicatrix1641
cautery1651
seam1681
cicatricula1783
welt1800
sabre-cutc1820
stigmate1870
scarring1898
whelp1912
Mars bar1971
1641 W. Prynne Antipathie 63 Pride the Cicatrix of hearts which ever ascendeth.
1643 J. Steer tr. Fabricius Exper. Chyrurg. viii. 37 This Ointment..produceth a faire Cicatrix.
1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 95 Below the cicatrix of the wound.
2. Botany. The scar left by the fall of a leaf, frond, etc.; the hilum of seeds.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > [noun] > parts of > hilum or cicatrix
hilum1753
cicatrix1826
cicatricula1828
caruncle1830
omphalodium1832
strophiole1839
omphalode1850
nucleus1861
wound stump1923
1826 J. M. Good Bk. Nature I. viii. 187 The hilum or eye..is a cicatrix or umbilicus remaining after the separation of the..umbilical cord from the pericarp.
1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 416 Leaving a smooth cicatrix encircled by the stipule.
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3. Conchology. ‘The glossy impression on the inside of valves to which the muscles of the animal have been attached’ (Craig).
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4. Entomology. ‘The truncated apex of the basal joint of the antennæ of some Longicorn Coleoptera’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon).
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