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 fall of pitiful tears, tears from the sweet blue of her guileless eyes, came hissing against the red-hot cicatrice.

From Love's Usuries by Creswicke, Louis

And he laid bare a fearful cicatrice that almost surrounded his right arm above the wrist.

From A Rent In A Cloud by Lever, Charles James

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

For many years a long white cicatrice recorded the fact in my right hand.

From Tracks of a Rolling Stone by Coke, Henry J. (Henry John)