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But despite all her visible cicatrices, her internal scars are worse.
From Newsweek ● Oct. 22, 2012
Besides this, the whole shoulder seemed a mass of cicatrices.
From The Blind Lion of the Congo by Elliott Whitney
Posterior half of nasal septum, right side, showing cicatrices.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
Still scars remained, and there were times when the blood flowed into these cicatrices so feverishly as to cause pain.
From The Home Mission by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
Anaplerosis, an′a-plē-rō′sis, n. the filling up of a deficiency, esp. in medicine: the filling up of parts that have been destroyed, as in wounds, cicatrices, &c.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various