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
As he spoke, he proceeded, in leisurely fashion, to unbutton the wrist of his shirt, and, baring his arm midway, showed me a pinkish cicatrice of considerable extent.
From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Charles James Lever
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
When I recovered consciousness, I found that my head had been shaved, and that the cicatrice of my old wound was occasionally very painful.
From The Portent & Other Stories by George MacDonald
The cicatrice served also as a mark of mutual recognition, so that the object and plans of the leaguers should never be discussed with others.
From The Philippine Islands by John Foreman
But despite all her visible cicatrices, her internal scars are worse.
From Newsweek ● Oct. 22, 2012
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 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
Radiotherapy claims to have healed or improved numerous cases of rheumatism of the joints, nervous troubles, ulceration, eczema, tumours and adhesive cicatrices.
From The Secret of Sarek by Maurice Leblanc
Another manner of adornment is by raised cicatrices made on the chest and back and arms, by cutting the skin with a piece of sharp flint and putting in gum or clay.
From Early Days in North Queensland by Edward Palmer
