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cicatrix

[sik-uh-triks, si-key-triks] / ˈsɪk ə trɪks, sɪˈkeɪ trɪks /




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She remembers the painful transitions to spring, the sea grapes and the rains, her skin a cicatrix.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

He no longer felt the smart, but the cicatrix was there, and he daily bowed to its symbolism, often without a thought of what it really meant.

From The Westerners by Stewart Edward White

You have probed each cicatrix to the bottom, and filled the minute holes with ink.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various

And he lifted the dead man’s hair and showed a cicatrix on the temple.

From Vistas of New York by Brander Matthews

A cicatrix in the membrane is evidence of a healed perforation, and is also transparent, but differs from an atrophic patch in being more sharply defined from the surrounding membrane.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles

But despite all her visible cicatrices, her internal scars are worse.

From Newsweek Oct. 22, 2012

When, after a time, health is completely restored, marked cicatrices are left behind.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Anaplerosis, an′a-plē-rō′sis, n. the filling up of a deficiency, esp. in medicine: the filling up of parts that have been destroyed, as in wounds, cicatrices, &c.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Extensive and deep cicatrices are not infrequently found in the site of the ulcerating local manifestations.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

This last is, in the milder varieties at least, perhaps the best method, as it is less likely to be followed by disfiguring cicatrices.

From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon




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