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What does Stigmata mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (religion) bodily marks or sores, corresponding in location to the crucifixion wounds of Christ, supposed to occur during states of religious ecstasy or hysteria
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Like her medieval predecessors, she received the stigmata, the mark of Christ's wounds.
If asked how it is possible for her to have the stigmata and be a pious fraud, the answer is that she does not truly suffer inexplicable wounds.
Stigmata light-brown, thoracic legs brown to black.
She hears voices, sees visions, and receives the stigmata as she vicariously relives the Passion of Jesus Christ.
There was mild gynecomastia, but there were no other stigmata of chronic liver disease.
Stigmata of hysteria were present in dyschromatopsia, restriction of the visual fields, and left hemihypersthesia.

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