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
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)
Anatomical studies show that the lesion has in some respects the structure of an ordinary wheal, with œdema and pigment deposit in the epidermal portion, and cellular infiltration made up principally of mast-cells.
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
Dick's palms were very puffy; there were a couple of blue blisters on his fingers, and across each wrist an angry-looking white wheal.
From The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy by Dyson, Edward
