cicatrix
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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
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R. In those in whom conception has ever taken place, some of these vesicles are removed, and in their place a cicatrix or scar is formed which continues through life.
From Fruits of Philosophy A Treatise on the Population Question by Charles Knowlton
A cicatrix in the membrane is evidence of a healed perforation, and is also transparent, but differs from an atrophic patch in being more sharply defined from the surrounding membrane.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
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 Francis E. Anstie
Even the cicatrix on his scalp was invisible, for his hair was made to cover it.
From In the Van; or, The Builders by John Price-Brown
But despite all her visible cicatrices, her internal scars are worse.
From Newsweek ● Oct. 22, 2012
The walls are often pasty, and may be eroded, or ulcerated, and they may show vessels or 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
The bloodless and livid skin, ploughed and wrinkled with these raised cicatrices, was drawn tightly over the cheek-bone.
From Spiritual Adventures by Arthur Symons
Besides this, the whole shoulder seemed a mass of cicatrices.
From The Blind Lion of the Congo by Elliott Whitney