cicatrice

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For it was the body of his friend, John St. Helen, beyond peradventure?a hooplike scar over the eye, a neck cicatrice, an old leg fracture, a crooked thumb.

From Time Magazine Archive

His features were hard, and on one cheek he had a cicatrice, the remains of some misfortune that had happened to him in his boyhood.

From An Eye for an Eye by Trollope, Anthony

The fall of pitiful tears, tears from the sweet blue of her guileless eyes, came hissing against the red-hot cicatrice.

From Love's Usuries by Creswicke, Louis

Lean but on a Rush, The cicatrice and capable impressure Thy palm some moment keeps.

From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson

When I recovered consciousness, I found that my head had been shaved, and that the cicatrice of my old wound was occasionally very painful.

From The Portent & Other Stories by MacDonald, George