Pl. cicatrices. [a. L. cicātrix a scar. In scientific use it takes the place of cicatrice.]
1. Pathol. The scar or seam remaining after a wound, sore or ulcer is healed. Also fig.
1641. Prynne, Antip., 63. Pride the Cicatrix of hearts which ever ascendeth.
1642. J. Steer, trans. Exp. Chyrurg., viii. 37. This Ointment mollifieth, easeth paine, and produceth a faire Cicatrix.
1804. Abernethy, Surg. Obs., 95. Below the cicatrix of the wound.
2. Bot. The scar left by the fall of a leaf, frond, etc.; the hilum of seeds.
1826. Good, Bk. Nat. (1834), I. 166. The hilum or eye … is a cicatrix or umbilicus remaining after the separation of the umbilical cord from the pericarp.
1882. Vines, Sachs’ Bot., 416. Leaving a smooth cicatrix encircled by the stipule.
3. Conch., ‘The glossy impression on the inside of valves to which the muscles of the animal have been attached’ (Craig).
4. Ent. ‘The truncated apex of the basal joint of the antennæ of some Longicorn Coleoptera’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
