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

Since 1880, since the administration of President Hayes, the wound has been steadily healing, until it has come to seem no longer a burning sore, but an honourable cicatrice.

From America To-day, Observations and Reflections by Archer, William

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

She lived to be eighty-five, and to the day of her death caressed the scar—the cicatrice of a love-wound.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists by Hubbard, Elbert

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 Trollope, Anthony