wheal

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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

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

There have been too many wheal Do-ems in Cornwall.

From Personal Reminiscences in Book Making and Some Short Stories by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

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)