wheal
pronunciation
How to pronounce wheal in British English:
UK [wi:l]
How to pronounce wheal in American English:
US [wil]
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- Noun:
- a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions
Word Origin
- wheal (n.)
- "mark made on the skin by a whip," 1808, perhaps an alteration of wale, possibly by confusion with weal "welt," and obsolete wheal "pimple, pustule" (mid-15c.), from Old English verb hwelian "to form pus, bring to a head."
Example
- 1. Wheal is right to flag up death-knock journalism as problematic .
- 2. But it 's not just death-knock journalism that 's at fault . Wheal has highlighted a much bigger problem : most people do not know how the press works , because no one tells them .
- 3. The papula scale filings common small wheal occurrence , has the ring-like scale filings durably .
- 4. One of the comments on wheal 's blog says : " ...... had you yourself acted differently and known the way the media worked in a situation like this , a lot of what happened could have been easily avoided . " Great .
- 5. The chicken pox patient presents the initial period infection in the symptom to be strongest , moreover its infection must continue to the last wheal scab .