scarification
Noun
Meaning
The act of scarifying.
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Art director James Robbins found the face painting, scarification and burns of remote jungle tribes mystical, and these served as inspiration for the face scarification of the Priors and the Doci.
If facial marks are a condition for being made an Oba, Emir or Eze in any part of the country, concerned princes will only avoid scarification at their own risk,” he says.
In his childhood, children used to get scarification over their enlarged spleens in the belief that it was curative.