cicatrice

/ˈsɪkətrɪks/

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."

Definitions of cicatrice

1. noun

   a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue
   synonyms: cicatrix, scar

   types:

   callus

   bony tissue formed during the healing of a fractured bone

   cheloid, keloid

   raised pinkish scar tissue at the site of an injury; results from excessive tissue repair

   pockmark

   a scar or pit on the skin that is left by a pustule of smallpox or acne or other eruptive disease

   sword-cut

   a scar from a cut made by a sword

   vaccination

   the scar left following inoculation with a vaccine

   chestnut

   a small horny callus on the inner surface of a horse's leg

   type of:

   symptom

   (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease