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A scar remaining after a wound or other tissue injury has healed.
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- an old cicatrix
- a pale cicatrix
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A pale cicatrix crossed the place where the bandage had rested.
The old cicatrix gave no certain account of how he had received it.
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Singular cicatrix; plural cicatrices or cicatrixes. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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