wheal
Americannoun
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a small, burning or itching swelling on the skin, as from a mosquito bite or from hives.
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a wale or welt.
noun
Etymology
Origin of wheal
before 900; akin to whelk 2 and to obsolete wheal (v.), Old English hwelian to suppurate, develop wheals
Example Sentences
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The comparison group received just as many injections of material that not only looked the same but raised an identical red wheal.
From Time Magazine Archive
Injected under the skin, it produces a hivelike raised wheal with reddened skin around it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Botallack mine is not, I need scarcely say, a wheal Do-em.
From Personal Reminiscences in Book Making and Some Short Stories by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
There was an angry wheal across his cheek.
From Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West by Raine, William MacLeod
Anatomically a wheal is seen to be a more or less firm elevation consisting of a circumscribed or somewhat diffused collection of semi-fluid material in the upper layers of the skin.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman
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