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

The cicatrice began to make itself very visible in his face, and the debonair manner was fast vanishing.

From Can You Forgive Her? by Trollope, Anthony

There was a curious curve upward at the end, and a thickened cicatrice, as if it had been carelessly gathered up by the surgeon's needle.

From The Way of the Gods by Long, John Luther

He stared with an almost comical seriousness at his bald forehead, and pointed to a three-cornered cicatrice, long healed, but still discernible.

From The Wisdom of Father Brown by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

She lived to be eighty-five, and to the day of her death caressed the scar—the cicatrice of a love-wound.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists by Hubbard, Elbert