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

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

“It’s five years ago, at the affair of the Tchanak-Kampo, and here’s a little reminiscence of it;” and, throwing back the sleeve of his right arm, he showed the cicatrice of a great sabre cut. 

From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Huc, Évariste Régis

There was the cicatrice of an old wound on a lower limb, but otherwise there was no spot or blemish upon the body.

From Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by McCabe, James Dabney

Didn't leave a cicatrice as big as a bee sting!

From The Faith Healer A Play in Three Acts by Moody, William Vaughn