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 Francis E. Anstie
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
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 Charles Darwin
Such healing is prepared for and carried out very thoroughly in the case of falling leaves and cast branches, the plane of separation being covered by a cicatrix of cork.
From Disease in Plants by H. Marshall Ward
But despite all her visible cicatrices, her internal scars are worse.
From Newsweek ● Oct. 22, 2012
The scars thus made have naught to do with the decorative cicatrices across the breast, before mentioned.
From Oriental Women by Edward Bagby Pollard
Besides this, the whole shoulder seemed a mass of cicatrices.
From The Blind Lion of the Congo by Elliott Whitney
In the softer skin if pigmented the cicatrices are white and frequently remain so for about a year, when the pigment returns.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
They bared their arms, and pointed out to each other the cicatrices of their half-healed wounds.
From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Walter Thornbury
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