wheal
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Injected under the skin, it produces a hivelike raised wheal with reddened skin around it.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
There have been too many wheal Do-ems in Cornwall.
From Personal Reminiscences in Book Making and Some Short Stories by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Once it fell smartly on Kathleen's hand, leaving a red wheal; still Kathleen held on.
From Grey Town An Australian Story by Gerald Baldwin
Anatomical studies show that the lesion has in some respects the structure of an ordinary wheal, with œdema and pigment deposit in the epidermal portion, and cellular infiltration made up principally of mast-cells.
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 Henry Weightman Stelwagon
