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
Sithee, th' childer's standin' ith middle oth yard wonderin' wheal th' noise comes throo.'
From Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley by John Hartley
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 Henry Weightman Stelwagon
Botallack mine is not, I need scarcely say, a wheal Do-em.
From Personal Reminiscences in Book Making and Some Short Stories by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
