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.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is usually, indeed, the minor poetry of an age which keeps most distinctly the "cicatrice and capable impressure" of a passing literary fashion.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

"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

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 fellow carried a long cicatrice on his left cheek.

From Boy Scouts on Motorcycles With the Flying Squadron by Ralphson, G. Harvey (George Harvey)