cicatrix
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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 sound was then removed, and a short bougie inserted, so as to pass beyond the cicatrix.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache
And he bared his breast as he spoke, to show the cicatrix of an old flesh-wound from a Highlander's bayonet.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various
R. In those in whom conception has ever taken place, some of these vesicles are removed, and in their place a cicatrix or scar is formed which continues through life.
From Fruits of Philosophy A Treatise on the Population Question by Charles Knowlton
The attacks recurred for more than a month, long after the original wound had healed soundly; and, for a long time after this, pressure on the cicatrix would reproduce the attacks.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie
But despite all her visible cicatrices, her internal scars are worse.
From Newsweek ● Oct. 22, 2012
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
Cicatricial types of postdiphtheritic stenosis may be seen as webs, annular cicatrices of funnel shape, or masses of fibrous tissue causing fixation of the arytenoids as well as encroachment on the glottic lumen.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
Tuberculosis, lues, scarlet fever, diphtheria, enteric fever and pyogenic conditions may produce ulceration followed by cicatrices of the esophagus.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
The scars thus made have naught to do with the decorative cicatrices across the breast, before mentioned.
From Oriental Women by Edward Bagby Pollard
