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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cicatrix \Ci*ca"trix\, n.; pl {Cicatrices}. [L.] (Med.)
The pellicle which forms over a wound or breach of continuity
and completes the process of healing in the latter, and which
subsequently contracts and becomes white, forming the scar.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
cicatrix
n : a mark left by the healing of injured tissue [syn: {scar}, {cicatrice}]
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