- a variation of cicatrix.
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.
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There was a curious curve upward at the end, and a thickened cicatrice, as if it had been carelessly gathered up by the surgeon's needle.
From The Way of the Gods by Long, John Luther
The fall of pitiful tears, tears from the sweet blue of her guileless eyes, came hissing against the red-hot cicatrice.
From Love's Usuries by Creswicke, Louis
"This proves the truth of it!" cried Fandor, pointing to a cicatrice on the back of the neck of the murdered man: it was the clear mark of where an abscess had been.
From Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas by Souvestre, Pierre
It is concealed by the paint, but remove that, and you will find it hath all the form of a cicatrice of a corresponding shape.
From The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by Cooper, James Fenimore
But despite all her visible cicatrices, her internal scars are worse.
From Newsweek ● Oct. 22, 2012
Radiotherapy claims to have healed or improved numerous cases of rheumatism of the joints, nervous troubles, ulceration, eczema, tumours and adhesive cicatrices.
From The Secret of Sarek by Leblanc, Maurice
In the softer skin if pigmented the cicatrices are white and frequently remain so for about a year, when the pigment returns.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
The cords, however, eventually completely disappear, and the cicatrices become moveable.
From Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by Makins, George Henry
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 Jackson, Chevalier