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

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

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)

Once it fell smartly on Kathleen's hand, leaving a red wheal; still Kathleen held on.

From Grey Town An Australian Story by Baldwin, Gerald