cicatrice
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A cicatrice is a scar, the mark left on your skin when a cut, scrape, or burn has started to heal. If you wipe out on your bike you might end up, weeks later, with a cicatrice on your knee. It's much more common to use the word scar, but you can also use cicatrice, or cicatrix, as it's also spelled. Often a cicatrice will fade over time, as the initial wound completes the healing process, but sometimes a cicatrice can stick around for the rest of your life as a reminder of your youthful skateboard adventures. Cicatrice comes from the Latin cicatrix, "scar."
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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
“It’s five years ago, at the affair of the Tchanak-Kampo, and here’s a little reminiscence of it;” and, throwing back the sleeve of his right arm, he showed the cicatrice of a great sabre cut.
From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Huc, Évariste Régis
Lean but on a Rush, The cicatrice and capable impressure Thy palm some moment keeps.
From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson
The handsome stalwart fellow, bronzed and weather-worn, his brow crossed by a deep and honourable cicatrice!
From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis
The cicatrice began to make itself very visible in his face, and the debonair manner was fast vanishing.
From Can You Forgive Her? by Trollope, Anthony
But despite all her visible cicatrices, her internal scars are worse.
From Newsweek ● Oct. 22, 2012
Radiotherapy claims to have healed or improved numerous cases of rheumatism of the joints, nervous troubles, ulceration, eczema, tumours and adhesive cicatrices.
From The Secret of Sarek by Leblanc, Maurice
The scars thus made have naught to do with the decorative cicatrices across the breast, before mentioned.
From Oriental Women by Pollard, Edward Bagby
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
Spasmodic stenosis with its consequent esophagitis and erosions, and, later, secondary pyogenic infection, may result in serious cicatrices.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier
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