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
A recurrence of the tumor is said to take place when the growth returns in the cicatrix, frequently in a multiple form.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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 Charles Darwin
R. In those in whom conception has ever taken place, some of these vesicles are removed, and in their place a cicatrix or scar is formed which continues through life.
From Fruits of Philosophy A Treatise on the Population Question by Charles Knowlton
Such healing is prepared for and carried out very thoroughly in the case of falling leaves and cast branches, the plane of separation being covered by a cicatrix of cork.
From Disease in Plants by H. Marshall Ward
But despite all her visible cicatrices, her internal scars are worse.
From Newsweek ● Oct. 22, 2012
The resulting cicatrices may be recognized by the affected parts of the bowel being thin and more translucent than in health, and may retain these characters after the lapse of several years.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Luetic cicatrices contract strongly, and are very resistant to treatment, so that esophagoscopic bouginage should be begun as early as possible after the healing of a luetic ulceration, in order to prevent stenosis.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
However, the number of cicatrices does not always correspond with the number of conceptions.
From Fruits of Philosophy A Treatise on the Population Question by Charles Knowlton
Prior to the happy advent of technically correctly placed filtering cicatrices, a large number of surgeons depended almost exclusively on the use of myotics in so-called simple, chronic or non-inflammatory glaucoma.
From Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 by Willis O. Nance
