WHEAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wheal mean? 

• WHEAL (noun)
  The noun WHEAL has 1 sense:

1. a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions

  Familiarity information: WHEAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHEAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

wale; weal; welt; wheal

Hypernyms ("wheal" is a kind of...):

harm; hurt; injury; trauma (any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.)

 Context examples 

A semi-quantitative assessment of the intensity of the wheal and flare reaction.

(Allergen Skin Response Intensity, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Vasculitis due to allergic reaction, marked by such cutaneous lesions as papules, macules, vesicles, urticarial wheals, purpura, and small ulcers, and accompanied by itching and usually a slight fever and malaise.

(Allergic Cutaneous Angiitis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The ratio measurement of the allergen wheal size to the positive control wheal size in an allergen skin test.

(Allergen Skin Response Index, NCI Thesaurus)

A broad wheal from an old scar ran right across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a perpetual snarl.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)