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 new arm is formed at the cicatrix before the next breeding season.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various

"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

The Chief Baron scarcely deigned a glance at the cicatrix; he was high above such puny considerations.

From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. by Lever, Charles James

An incision was then made externally, in the direction of the urethra, so as to divide the cicatrix, and open the canal above and below the contracted part.

From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Bache, Franklin