Whitlow

[hwitlәu]

解釋/意思:

(a.) An inflammation of the fingers or toes, generally of the last phalanx, terminating usually in suppuration. The inflammation may occupy any seat between the skin and the bone, but is usually applied to a felon or inflammation of the periosteal structures of the bone.

(a.) An inflammatory disease of the feet. It occurs round the hoof, where an acrid matter is collected.

錄入:玛格

同義詞及近義詞：

n. (Med.) Felon.

雅克校對

解釋/意思:

n. a painful inflammatory affection of the fingers almost always proceeding to suppuration paronychia.—n. Whit′low-grass a small British saxifrage: the small Draba verna of America.

柯蒂斯校對