- 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
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
They saw it was an old cicatrice, sure to be recognised by any father who had taken the slightest interest in the physical condition of his son.
From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Mayne Reid
The fall of pitiful tears, tears from the sweet blue of her guileless eyes, came hissing against the red-hot cicatrice.
From Love's Usuries by Louis Creswicke
His features were hard, and on one cheek he had a cicatrice, the remains of some misfortune that had happened to him in his boyhood.
From An Eye for an Eye by Anthony Trollope
But despite all her visible cicatrices, her internal scars are worse.
From Newsweek ● Oct. 22, 2012
The only lesion visible in a tuberculous case may be cicatrices from healed processes.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
Spasmodic stenosis with its consequent esophagitis and erosions, and, later, secondary pyogenic infection, may result in serious cicatrices.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
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
The nasal mucosa, and especially over the septum, is the seat of the peculiar elevations, ulcers, and firm white, condensed deposits resembling cicatrices, usually low enough down to be seen or felt.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
