cicatrix

Example Sentences

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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

"I would beg to observe," said the lawyer, "that if an old cicatrix is to be the essential token of recognition, few men who have lived the adventurous life of Meekins will escape calumny."

From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James

You have probed each cicatrix to the bottom, and filled the minute holes with ink.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various

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 Ward, H. Marshall

The attacks recurred for more than a month, long after the original wound had healed soundly; and, for a long time after this, pressure on the cicatrix would reproduce the attacks.

From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.