cicatrice noun. ['sɪkǝtrɪs] Also (esp. Medicine & Botany) cicatrix ['sɪkǝtrɪks]. Pl. cicatrices ['sɪkǝtrɪsɪz; esp. Medicine & Botany sɪkǝ'trʌɪsi:z]. LME.
[Old & mod. French, or Latin cicatrix, -tric-.]
1. The scar of a healed wound, burn, etc.; a scar on the bark of a tree. LME.
b. Botany. = SCAR noun² 2. E19.
2. A mark or impression resembling a scar. L16.

■ cicatricial [sɪkǝ'trɪʃ(ǝ)l] adjective pertaining to or of the nature of a scar; forming a scar: L19.

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