whitlow
1 synonym for whitlow, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — Inflammation and/or infection in the cuticle and/or the nailbed of a fingernail or toenail.
Synonyms
Rare, literary or technical
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Etymology
Comes from Late Middle English, an alteration of whitflaw, whose first element derives either from Middle Dutch vijt or Low German fit (“abscess”), borrowed from Latin fīcus (“fig-shaped (ulcer)”), though it was also influenced by white. The same Latin loan existed in other languages too, such as Old English fic (“hemo...
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