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

There was a curious curve upward at the end, and a thickened cicatrice, as if it had been carelessly gathered up by the surgeon's needle.

From The Way of the Gods by Long, John Luther

The raw surface heals irregularly, the cicatrice contracting causes stricture, and an animal so injured is likely to die of starvation.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

Chest and back were covered with skin decoration of the cicatrice type, which, healing without any tendency to keloid, left a smooth mark, distinguished by its lustre only from the normal surface.

From In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" by Kloss, C. Boden

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 Reid, Mayne