Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cicatrix"
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) 1.7 (wn)
cicatrix
n : a mark left by the healing of injured tissue [syn: {scar}, {scar
tissue}, {cicatrice}]
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