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

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 Kloss, C. Boden

There was the cicatrice of an old wound on a lower limb, but otherwise there was no spot or blemish upon the body.

From Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by McCabe, James Dabney

The handsome stalwart fellow, bronzed and weather-worn, his brow crossed by a deep and honourable cicatrice!

From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis

“It’s five years ago, at the affair of the Tchanak-Kampo, and here’s a little reminiscence of it;” and, throwing back the sleeve of his right arm, he showed the cicatrice of a great sabre cut. 

From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Huc, Évariste Régis