cicatrix
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She remembers the painful transitions to spring, the sea grapes and the rains, her skin a cicatrix.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
His nose had been divided across the middle by what seemed the slash of a cutlass, the cicatrix remaining of an angry red color, amid the florid hue of the countenance.
From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James
And he lifted the dead man’s hair and showed a cicatrix on the temple.
From Vistas of New York by Matthews, Brander
Habitual spasms of the muscles and a cicatrix from a severe burn have permanently modified the facial bones.
From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Darwin, Charles
Epithelioma of the scalp may originate in relation to a wart, an ulcerated wen or sebaceous adenoma, or the cicatrix of a burn.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
But despite all her visible cicatrices, her internal scars are worse.
From Newsweek ● Oct. 22, 2012
They bared their arms, and pointed out to each other the cicatrices of their half-healed wounds.
From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter
Spasmodic stenosis with its consequent esophagitis and erosions, and, later, secondary pyogenic infection, may result in serious cicatrices.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier
The bloodless and livid skin, ploughed and wrinkled with these raised cicatrices, was drawn tightly over the cheek-bone.
From Spiritual Adventures by Symons, Arthur
The walls are often pasty, and may be eroded, or ulcerated, and they may show vessels or cicatrices.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier
