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
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
However, save for a cicatrix to mark the trifling occurrence, he was unharmed.
From The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation by Boldrewood, Rolf
A cicatrix in the membrane is evidence of a healed perforation, and is also transparent, but differs from an atrophic patch in being more sharply defined from the surrounding membrane.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
The seat of the efflorescence is mainly in the superficial layers of the skin, but it is said that it sometimes has occurred upon a cicatrix, as that from a burn.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
But despite all her visible cicatrices, her internal scars are worse.
From Newsweek ● Oct. 22, 2012
Another manner of adornment is by raised cicatrices made on the chest and back and arms, by cutting the skin with a piece of sharp flint and putting in gum or clay.
From Early Days in North Queensland by Palmer, Edward
This last is, in the milder varieties at least, perhaps the best method, as it is less likely to be followed by disfiguring cicatrices.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman
Still scars remained, and there were times when the blood flowed into these cicatrices so feverishly as to cause pain.
From The Home Mission by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
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 Jackson, Chevalier
