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

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

They saw it was an old cicatrice, sure to be recognised by any father who had taken the slightest interest in the physical condition of his son.

From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Reid, Mayne

Two or three miles away on our right the ground rose gently to a range of low wooded hills, and on their bare green slopes brown furrows showed up like a cicatrice.

From Leaves from a Field Note-Book by Morgan, John Hartman

The sword of overwhelming tragedy had stripped off the protecting cicatrice of pride and arrogant resentment and bared the lonely soul beneath, that in this shuddering instant groped wildly for human comfort.

From The Long Lane's Turning by Rives, Hallie Erminie