cicatrices

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cicatrices - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
     [1913 Webster]