cicatrix

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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

The attacks recurred for more than a month, long after the original wound had healed soundly; and, for a long time after this, pressure on the cicatrix would reproduce the attacks.

From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.

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

Nautiloidea.—Initial chamber not inflated, with dorso-ventral cicatrix at extremity.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various

Habitual spasms of the muscles and a cicatrix from a severe burn have permanently modified the facial bones.

From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Darwin, Charles