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 was an angry wheal across his cheek.

From Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West by Raine, William MacLeod

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

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