- a variation of cicatrix.
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
He turned over the neck of his patient's shirt and showed the cicatrice, angry and ugly.
From Doom Castle by Neil Munro
She lived to be eighty-five, and to the day of her death caressed the scar—the cicatrice of a love-wound.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists by Elbert Hubbard
The cicatrice, combined with the natural ugliness of the features, and the greasy ocher and paint, daubed and smeared over the skin, rendered the countenance of the warrior as frightful as can be conceived.
From Footprints in the Forest by Edward Sylvester Ellis
And he laid bare a fearful cicatrice that almost surrounded his right arm above the wrist.
From A Rent In A Cloud by Charles James Lever
But despite all her visible cicatrices, her internal scars are worse.
From Newsweek ● Oct. 22, 2012
Another manner of adornment is by raised cicatrices made on the chest and back and arms, by cutting the skin with a piece of sharp flint and putting in gum or clay.
From Early Days in North Queensland by Edward Palmer
The milder attacks may leave persistent relics of their career in the form of one or more depressed and persistent cicatrices, which become less conspicuous as the patient approaches adult years.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Its cicatrices on the soft palate are always a source of inconvenience, partly in swallowing, partly in speaking.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
The resulting cicatrices may be recognized by the affected parts of the bowel being thin and more translucent than in health, and may retain these characters after the lapse of several years.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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