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 Literature
But despite all her visible cicatrices, her internal scars are worse.
From Newsweek
And he lifted the dead man’s hair and showed a cicatrix on the temple.
From Project Gutenberg
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 Project Gutenberg
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 Project Gutenberg
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