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

He turned over the neck of his patient's shirt and showed the cicatrice, angry and ugly.

From Doom Castle by Munro, Neil

Didn't leave a cicatrice as big as a bee sting!

From The Faith Healer A Play in Three Acts by Moody, William Vaughn

The raw surface heals irregularly, the cicatrice contracting causes stricture, and an animal so injured is likely to die of starvation.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

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