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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

As he spoke, he proceeded, in leisurely fashion, to unbutton the wrist of his shirt, and, baring his arm midway, showed me a pinkish cicatrice of considerable extent.

From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Charles James Lever

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 Mayne Reid

Nigel turned pale as his eyes rested upon the cicatrice, showing like a whitish seam through the slight coating of blood.

From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Mayne Reid

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

From A Rent In A Cloud by Charles James Lever

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

From Newsweek Oct. 22, 2012

The cords, however, eventually completely disappear, and the cicatrices become moveable.

From Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by George Henry Makins

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

The bloodless and livid skin, ploughed and wrinkled with these raised cicatrices, was drawn tightly over the cheek-bone.

From Spiritual Adventures by Arthur Symons

Posterior half of nasal septum, right side, showing cicatrices.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener




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