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cicatrix

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈsɪ.kəˌtɹɪks/Part of speech nounSorted acciirtxStarts with CEnds with X0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue

Word origin

Borrowed from Latin cicatrix.

Used in a sentence

  • Here the boy was made to strip, and the commissioner, Mr Symonds, found a large cicatrix likely to have been occasioned by such an instrument...
  • He stopped to stare at two old men who sat beside the fire, naked and daubed with red and white ochre and adorned about arms and legs and breasts with elaborate systems of cicatrix.
  • Past the mountains, Ellay now lay looking scratchy and scarred, a hatchmarked cicatrix on the dusty earth, livid in the threatening light.

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