- 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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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
Chest and back were covered with skin decoration of the cicatrice type, which, healing without any tendency to keloid, left a smooth mark, distinguished by its lustre only from the normal surface.
From In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" by C. Boden Kloss
The fire has seared, the cicatrice remains—though to be hidden away, of course.
From 'Murphy' A Message to Dog Lovers by Ernest Gambier-Parry
He looked full into Grey's face, and Grey looked full into his; and as he looked the great cicatrice seemed to open itself and to become purple with fresh blood stains.
From Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope
But despite all her visible cicatrices, her internal scars are worse.
From Newsweek ● Oct. 22, 2012
The walls are often pasty, and may be eroded, or ulcerated, and they may show vessels or cicatrices.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
The cicatrices, or scars, that are often found upon the liver indicate that this organ may suffer small rupture and yet the horse may recover from it.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
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
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