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
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It was from the nostrils in 82 cases, from the uterus in 1 case, from the stomach in 4 cases, and from the cicatrix of a chancre in 1 case.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
He no longer felt the smart, but the cicatrix was there, and he daily bowed to its symbolism, often without a thought of what it really meant.
From The Westerners by White, Stewart Edward
In the Ammonoidea, on the other hand, the initial chamber is inflated, and is spheroidal, oval or pyriform in shape, with no cicatrix, and separated from the first air-chamber by a constriction.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various
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
But despite all her visible cicatrices, her internal scars are worse.
From Newsweek ● Oct. 22, 2012
His calves still bore the cicatrices cut on them by the farrier's knife, and the major was not one to forgive an injury.
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
They bared their arms, and pointed out to each other the cicatrices of their half-healed wounds.
From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter
Radiotherapy claims to have healed or improved numerous cases of rheumatism of the joints, nervous troubles, ulceration, eczema, tumours and adhesive cicatrices.
From The Secret of Sarek by Leblanc, Maurice
In most cases the cicatrices are unmistakably conspicuous.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier