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 Rafael Sabatini
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
Rye flour is next best to wheat flour for bread making, but is generally combined with wheal flour, since by itself it makes a sticky bread.
From The International Jewish Cook Book 1600 Recipes According to the Jewish Dietary Laws with the Rules for Kashering; the Favorite Recipes of America, Austria, Germany, Russia, France, Poland, Roumania, Etc., Etc. by Florence Kreisler Greenbaum
