scarifications

I also branched out into other more "extreme" forms of modification, such as a 4 1/2-hour flesh removal on my right calf, numerous ritual cuttings and scarifications, countless flesh pulls and numerous suspensions.

Get me to the Church of Body Modification on time 2010

It's a group of people who experience their spirituality through modifying their bodies -- piercings, tattoos, scarifications and beyond.

Get me to the Church of Body Modification on time 2010

In all such cases the parts are to be bathed with vinegar, after which they are not to be wetted; neither must the person lie upon the scarifications, but they are to be anointed with some of the medicines for bloody wounds.

On Ulcers 2007

But blood is to be abstracted, especially the from the veins, which are the seat of the influx, if they be conspicuous; but if not, deeper and more numerous scarifications are to be made in the swellings; and whatever part you scarify, this is to be done with the sharpest and most slender instruments of iron.

On Ulcers 2007

If upon loosing the bandages you find the scarifications inflamed, apply a cataplasm of the fruit of the chaste-tree and linseed.

On Ulcers 2007

But if the scarifications become ulcerated and break into one another, we must be regulated by circumstances, and otherwise apply whatever else appears to be proper.

On Ulcers 2007

That these scarifications are intended solely to increase personal allurement I will not, however, positively affirm.

The Settlement at Port Jackson 2003

Several contained drawings, mostly nature studies; but there were a few at variance with the rest, all renderings of a grotesque male face, extremely narrow and long, with a flattened nose similar to a baboon's and striations on the cheeks like ritual scarifications.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

The hollowness of the back, and symmetrical balance of the upper part of the torso, ornamented as it was, like a piece of fine carving, with raised scarifications most tastefully placed; such were some of the characteristics of this perfect “piece of work.”

Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

Only the clan scarifications on both heels remained visible, to mark him and his footprints as of the Kwanyi.

Conan and The Gods of The Mountain Green, Roland 1993