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    CICATRICE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissueplay

    Synonyms:

    cicatrice; cicatrix; scar

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

    Hypernyms ("cicatrice" is a kind of...):

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

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cicatrice"):

    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)

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