whitlow noun.
['wɪtlǝʊ] Also
whitflaw,
whitflow.
LME.[Prob. from WHITE adjective + FLAW noun1; but perh. rel. to Dutch fijt, vijt, Low German fit. The alt. to whitlow is unexpl.]Medicine. (An infection causing) an abscess or swelling in the pulp around a fingernail or toenail. Cf.
PARONYCHIA 1.
Comb.:
whitlow-grass (a) a dwarf early-flowering white-flowered cruciferous plant of wall-tops etc.,
Erophila verna, formerly reputed to cure whitlows;
(b) (with specifying word) any of several plants of the related genus
Draba, found esp. on mountain rocks.
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