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

He turned over the neck of his patient's shirt and showed the cicatrice, angry and ugly.

From Doom Castle by Munro, Neil

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

“It’s five years ago, at the affair of the Tchanak-Kampo, and here’s a little reminiscence of it;” and, throwing back the sleeve of his right arm, he showed the cicatrice of a great sabre cut. 

From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Huc, Évariste Régis

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