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cicatrix

[sik-uh-triks, si-kay-triks] / ˈsɪk ə trɪks, sɪˈkeɪ trɪks /




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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

However, save for a cicatrix to mark the trifling occurrence, he was unharmed.

From The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation by Rolf Boldrewood

The seat of the efflorescence is mainly in the superficial layers of the skin, but it is said that it sometimes has occurred upon a cicatrix, as that from a burn.

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

Even the cicatrix on his scalp was invisible, for his hair was made to cover it.

From In the Van; or, The Builders by John Price-Brown

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

But despite all her visible cicatrices, her internal scars are worse.

From Newsweek ● Oct. 22, 2012

The only lesion visible in a tuberculous case may be cicatrices from healed processes.

From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson

Legs nearly clear: they have many cicatrices, especially on the shin and outer part.

From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache

Intubational treatment of chronic laryngeal stenosis may be tried in certain forms of stenosis in which the cicatrices do not seem very thick.

From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson

Another manner of adornment is by raised cicatrices made on the chest and back and arms, by cutting the skin with a piece of sharp flint and putting in gum or clay.

From Early Days in North Queensland by Edward Palmer


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