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
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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
When I recovered consciousness, I found that my head had been shaved, and that the cicatrice of my old wound was occasionally very painful.
From The Portent & Other Stories by George MacDonald
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
For many years a long white cicatrice recorded the fact in my right hand.
From Tracks of a Rolling Stone by Henry J. (Henry John) Coke
But despite all her visible cicatrices, her internal scars are worse.
From Newsweek ● Oct. 22, 2012
Prior to the happy advent of technically correctly placed filtering cicatrices, a large number of surgeons depended almost exclusively on the use of myotics in so-called simple, chronic or non-inflammatory glaucoma.
From Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 by Willis O. Nance
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
Her strength might be irrevocable and the cicatrices not to be effaced, yet give her that balm, and come what sorrow could.
From Eden An Episode by Edgar Saltus
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