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

Charnock did not see the blow struck, but he heard Wilbraham's cry, and as he entered the patio, he saw the wheal redden and ridge upon his face.

From Miranda of the Balcony A Story by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodle)

Men who saw him riding wildly thus with the red wheal across his white furious face said that he looked a very devil.

From The Sea-Hawk by Sabatini, Rafael

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