wheal

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  1. noun A small swelling on the skin, as from an insect bite, that usually itches or burns.

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  • With prolonged, repeated exposure to the insect, a wheal develops immediately after the bite and an itchy bump forms 24 hours later.
  • By adulthood or the teenage years, only a wheal may form with the subsequent itchy bump.
  • Spiders may produce a reddened wheal and an ulcer.
  • My pony keeps developing the odd wheal on his neck and recently He had a swelling on his chest.
  • There is the same sharp, tingling sensation and a similar white wheal or blotch, caused by the muscular spasm of the corium, a layer of the skin Urticaria may be either acute or chronic. —  The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
 

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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Probably alteration of wale.

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  1. from Middle English wheel, whele, whelle, a pimple, wheal (cf. diminutive whelk, a little wheal), from Anglo-Saxon *hwēle, wheal (Somner); origin and status uncertain; cf. Anglo-Saxon hwelan (*hwēlan ?), wither, pine away; cf. Welsh chwiler, a maggot, wheal, pimple.
  2. from Middle English whelen: see wheal, n.
  3. Also huel, wheel, whel, wheyl; from Corn, hwel, a work, a mine; cf. Welsh chwyl, a turn, course, while, chwylo, turn, revolve, run a course, bustle, chwel, a course, turn.
 

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