Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Deep-seated suppurative in flammation in a finger (rarely in a toe), especially frequent in the ungual phalanx: same as
whitlow or felon.
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Examples
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They cease either because the inflammation has been dispersed, and the morbid process is terminated, or else a healthy suppuration has been set up, so that the swelling will discharge of itself, and a cure will be effected as speedily as the nature of the panaritium will admit.
Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent C. W. Wolf
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And a councillor's wife was cured of a _panaritium_ (?) which had vexed her for four days by the same means.
Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century James Napier 1847
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