cicatrix

Example Sentences

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She remembers the painful transitions to spring, the sea grapes and the rains, her skin a cicatrix.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

The term catarrhal pock, however, is not vitiated by an extension of the morbid process deep enough to produce a permanent cicatrix, and it is probable that in most cases the catarrhal type predominates.

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

You have probed each cicatrix to the bottom, and filled the minute holes with ink.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various

A new arm is formed at the cicatrix before the next breeding season.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various

The Chief Baron scarcely deigned a glance at the cicatrix; he was high above such puny considerations.

From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. by Lever, Charles James