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
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The softened mass is finally absorbed, and the walls of the cyst, or capsule around it, gradually collapse and form a cicatrix.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
And he lifted the dead man’s hair and showed a cicatrix on the temple.
From Vistas of New York by Brander Matthews
Epithelioma of the scalp may originate in relation to a wart, an ulcerated wen or sebaceous adenoma, or the cicatrix of a burn.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
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
But despite all her visible cicatrices, her internal scars are worse.
From Newsweek ● Oct. 22, 2012
The milder attacks may leave persistent relics of their career in the form of one or more depressed and persistent cicatrices, which become less conspicuous as the patient approaches adult years.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
The cords, however, eventually completely disappear, and the cicatrices become moveable.
From Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by George Henry Makins
Its cicatrices on the soft palate are always a source of inconvenience, partly in swallowing, partly in speaking.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Her strength might be irrevocable and the cicatrices not to be effaced, yet give her that balm, and come what sorrow could.
From Eden An Episode by Edgar Saltus