cicatrice
Americannoun
plural
cicatricesOther Word Forms
- cicatrical adjective
- cicatricial adjective
- noncicatricial adjective
- paracicatricial adjective
Example Sentences
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For it was the body of his friend, John St. Helen, beyond peradventure?a hooplike scar over the eye, a neck cicatrice, an old leg fracture, a crooked thumb.
From Time Magazine Archive
"This proves the truth of it!" cried Fandor, pointing to a cicatrice on the back of the neck of the murdered man: it was the clear mark of where an abscess had been.
From Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas by Souvestre, Pierre
What a delectable conspirator!' laughed my lord, cooling his aching head against the wall, while the cicatrice on his forehead grew red, and an evil glitter shone in his eyes.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
He looked full into Grey's face, and Grey looked full into his; and as he looked the great cicatrice seemed to open itself and to become purple with fresh blood stains.
From Can You Forgive Her? by Trollope, Anthony
He was slashed with a wide cicatrice of livid scar tissue from one cheekbone across his nose and down to the button of his jaw on the other side.
From Valley of the Croen by Tarbell, Lee
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