whitlow
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of whitlow
1350–1400; Middle English whit ( f ) lowe, whitflawe. See white, flaw 1
Example Sentences
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He says it is possible the surgeon may have had a herpetic whitlow - a herpes infection on the finger - which could have "directly seeded the herpes into the abdomen of the women".
From BBC • Nov. 22, 2021
According to the NHS website, the symptoms of a whitlow can vary from a small bump to open lesions - meaning they can go undetected.
From BBC • Nov. 22, 2021
These explanations likewise point out the true course to be pursued, in case we should at the outset find that a whitlow owes its existence to the psoric miasm.
From Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent by Wolf, C. W.
In many cases, a man dies without having incurred nearly as much pain, during the whole of his fatal illness, as would have arisen from a whitlow or an abscess of the jaw.
From The Stark Munro Letters by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
We don't subscribe to anything, or take any truck in parsons; and the slavey has a whitlow on her finger, and mother's having fits over the cooking.
From The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
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