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 "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

And he lifted the dead man’s hair and showed a cicatrix on the temple.

From Vistas of New York by Matthews, Brander

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 Disease in Plants by Ward, H. Marshall

The treatment is to let out the pus, and, whenever possible, this should be done from the mouth to avoid a cicatrix on the face.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

The attacks recurred for more than a month, long after the original wound had healed soundly; and, for a long time after this, pressure on the cicatrix would reproduce the attacks.

From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.