| 单词 | cicatrice |
| 释义 | cicatrice (once / 89541 pages) n A cicatrice is a scar, the mark left on your skin when a cut, scrape, or burn has started to heal. If you wipe out on your bike you might end up, weeks later, with a cicatrice on your knee. It's much more common to use the word scar, but you can also use cicatrice, or cicatrix, as it's also spelled. Often a cicatrice will fade over time, as the initial wound completes the healing process, but sometimes a cicatrice can stick around for the rest of your life as a reminder of your youthful skateboard adventures. Cicatrice comes from the Latin cicatrix, "scar." WORD FAMILYcicatrice USAGE EXAMPLESShe touched his hand as she scanned the red cicatrice on the inside of his white wrist. Kate Chopin, The Awakening(1899) The handsome stalwart fellow, bronzed and weather-worn, his brow crossed by a deep and honourable cicatrice! Wingfield, Lewis, The Curse of Koshiu—A Chronicle of...(2012) Nigel turned pale as his eyes rested upon the cicatrice, showing like a whitish seam through the slight coating of blood. Reid, Mayne, The Finger of Fate—A Romance(2011) n a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue Syn|Hypo|Hyper cicatrix, scar callus bony tissue formed during the healing of a fractured bone cheloid, keloidraised pinkish scar tissue at the site of an injury; results from excessive tissue repair pockmarka scar or pit on the skin that is left by a pustule of smallpox or acne or other eruptive disease sword-cuta scar from a cut made by a sword vaccinationthe scar left following inoculation with a vaccine chestnuta small horny callus on the inner surface of a horse's leg symptom (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease |
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