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

They saw it was an old cicatrice, sure to be recognised by any father who had taken the slightest interest in the physical condition of his son.

From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Reid, Mayne

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

From Doom Castle by Munro, Neil

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

Nigel turned pale as his eyes rested upon the cicatrice, showing like a whitish seam through the slight coating of blood.

From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Reid, Mayne