A scar, especially one left after a wound heals; a mark of damage or injury.
From Latin cicatrix (scar), possibly related to cacare (to carve or cut), though the ultimate origin is debated. The word entered English through medical and scientific terminology in the Renaissance.
Cicatrix is the proper Latin singular that still appears in medical textbooks—the plural cicatrices sounds like ancient Roman doctors speaking, yet we use it today in dermatology and surgery to sound authoritative about scars.
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