cicatrix
Example Sentences
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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
And he bared his breast as he spoke, to show the cicatrix of an old flesh-wound from a Highlander's bayonet.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various
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
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
The treatment is to let out the pus, and, whenever possible, this should be done from the mouth to avoid a cicatrix on the face.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
