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cicatrice

[sik-uh-tris, -trees] / ˈsɪk ə trɪs, -tris /


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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 Neil Munro

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 John Hartman Morgan

Lean but on a Rush, The cicatrice and capable impressure Thy palm some moment keeps.

From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Henry Nicholson Ellacombe

It is usually, indeed, the minor poetry of an age which keeps most distinctly the "cicatrice and capable impressure" of a passing literary fashion.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

But despite all her visible cicatrices, her internal scars are worse.

From Newsweek ● Oct. 22, 2012

The abdomen was tumid, and marked by cicatrices like those of women, who have borne children.

From Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart by John Collins Warren

Its cicatrices on the soft palate are always a source of inconvenience, partly in swallowing, partly in speaking.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

This last is, in the milder varieties at least, perhaps the best method, as it is less likely to be followed by disfiguring cicatrices.

From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon

When night came, the stars would issue from their ambush and stab it through and through, but the glittering cicatrices which they made left it bluer even, more persistent than before.

From A Transient Guest and Other Episodes by Edgar Saltus




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