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cicatrice

/sik-uh-triks, si-key-triks/US // ˈsɪk ə trɪks, sɪˈkeɪ trɪks //UK // (ˈsɪkətrɪks) //

卡特丽斯,卡特里斯,卡特里奇,卡特里斯

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural cic·a·tri·ces [sik-uh-trahy-seez]. /ˌsɪk əˈtraɪ siz/.

    • : Physiology. new tissue that forms over a wound and later contracts into a scar.
    • : Botany. a scar left by a fallen leaf, seed, etc.

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Examples

  • She lived to be eighty-five, and to the day of her death caressed the scar—the cicatrice of a love-wound.

  • And he laid bare a fearful cicatrice that almost surrounded his right arm above the wrist.

  • The fall of pitiful tears, tears from the sweet blue of her guileless eyes, came hissing against the red-hot cicatrice.

  • There was the cicatrice of an old wound on a lower limb, but otherwise there was no spot or blemish upon the body.

  • Each of these matrixes contains a small drop of this prolific liquor of the female, in the part that is called the cicatrice.