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cicatrix

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Cicatrix (noun) means a mark left on the skin after a wound has healed; also used to mean the same thing in a non-literal sense.

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A mark left on the skin after a wound has healed; also used to mean the same thing in a non-literal sense.

"He stopped to stare at two old men who sat beside the fire, naked and daubed with red and white ochre and adorned about arms and legs and breasts with elaborate systems of cicatrix." — Xavier Herbert (1938)

"Past the mountains, Ellay now lay looking scratchy and scarred, a hatchmarked cicatrix on the dusty earth, livid in the threatening light." — Diane Duane (2011)

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