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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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
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
I was troubled with an inflammation in the face just at this time, while Ninnis suffered pain owing to a "whitlow" on one of his fingers.
From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Sir Douglas Mawson
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 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Philotimus the doctor, when a patient who had abscesses on his liver showed him his sore finger, said to him, "My friend, it is not the whitlow that matters."
From Plutarch's Morals by Arthur Richard Shilleto
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