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 softened mass is finally absorbed, and the walls of the cyst, or capsule around it, gradually collapse and form a cicatrix.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

"I would beg to observe," said the lawyer, "that if an old cicatrix is to be the essential token of recognition, few men who have lived the adventurous life of Meekins will escape calumny."

From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James

Habitual spasms of the muscles and a cicatrix from a severe burn have permanently modified the facial bones.

From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Darwin, Charles

He no longer felt the smart, but the cicatrix was there, and he daily bowed to its symbolism, often without a thought of what it really meant.

From The Westerners by White, Stewart Edward