cicatrix
Example Sentences
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She remembers the painful transitions to spring, the sea grapes and the rains, her skin a cicatrix.
From Literature
But despite all her visible cicatrices, her internal scars are worse.
From Newsweek
And he lifted the dead man’s hair and showed a cicatrix on the temple.
From Project Gutenberg
The term catarrhal pock, however, is not vitiated by an extension of the morbid process deep enough to produce a permanent cicatrix, and it is probable that in most cases the catarrhal type predominates.
From Project Gutenberg
Such healing is prepared for and carried out very thoroughly in the case of falling leaves and cast branches, the plane of separation being covered by a cicatrix of cork.
From Project Gutenberg
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