cicatrix

Etymology

From Latin cicatrix.

noun

1. A scar that remains after the development of new tissue over a recovering wound or sore (also used figuratively).
   Here the boy was made to strip, and the commissioner, Mr Symonds, found a large cicatrix likely to have been occasioned by such an instrument... 1853, John C. Cobden, The White Slaves of England, Cincinnati: Derby, page 33
   He stopped to stare at two old men who sat beside the fire, naked and daubed with red and white ochre and adorned about arms and legs and breasts with elaborate systems of cicatrix. 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter II, in Capricornia, page 21