scarification

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One is the elongated, slender triangular face with raised, ritual scarifications familiar from so-called Kota reliquaries made in Gabon.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2019

All efforts to reduce the swelling were unavailing; neither punctures, leeches, nor scarifications were of any avail; catheterization was impossible, but, after relieving the bladder by the supra-pubic aspiration, the patient experienced some relief.

From History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by Remondino, Peter Charles

Leeches or scarifications are, I think, very seldom of value.

From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.

In these cases the treatment indicated above, and especially the scarifications, will prove a useful preliminary resort.

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

That these scarifications are intended solely to increase personal allurement I will not, however, positively affirm.

From A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson by Tench, Watkin