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

A cicatrix covering a slight depression was easily found, above the left superciliary ridge of the frontal bone, and over the superior orbitar foramen.

From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Bache, Franklin

The swelling caused by the infiltration gradually subsides, leaving a cicatrix to which the overlying conjunctiva becomes adherent.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various

In the Ammonoidea, on the other hand, the initial chamber is inflated, and is spheroidal, oval or pyriform in shape, with no cicatrix, and separated from the first air-chamber by a constriction.

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

The formation of a cicatrix is evidently due to the intensity of the process in certain exceptional lesions, as a result of which the papill� of the corium are superficially destroyed.

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