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whitlow

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Noun — Inflammation and/or infection in the cuticle and/or the nailbed of a fingernail or toenail.

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From Late Middle English, an alteration of whitflaw, with the first element deriving either from Middle Dutch vijt or Low German fit (“abscess”), borrowed from Latin fīcus (“fig-shaped (ulcer)”), though also influenced by white. The Latin loan also existed in other languages, such as Old English fic (“hemorrhoids”). Se...

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