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- noun Plural form of
wheal .
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Examples
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She also broke out all over her body in little red bumps called wheals that itched and burned.
The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009
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In the children who lost their allergies, the wheals were an average 2 mm in size in the diagnostic test, peaked in size at one year, and then dropped to 0.5 mm at 4 years.
Archive 2006-06-01 Steve Carper 2006
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In the children who lost their allergies, the wheals were an average 2 mm in size in the diagnostic test, peaked in size at one year, and then dropped to 0.5 mm at 4 years.
Big News! Test May Tell if Your Infant Will Always Be Allergic to Milk Steve Carper 2006
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Too bad, the Palestnians were polar bears, or humb back wheals!
The Spineless Huffington Post Gives ‘Equal Time’ « Antiwar.com Blog 2008
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Physicians should then take a detailed medical history, conduct a physical exam and confirm the allergy with a skin-prick test, in which tiny drops of the suspected allergen are pricked into the skin, usually in the forearm, to see if red wheals form.
New Rules for Food Allergies Melinda Beck 2010
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In cold urticaria, skin reaction to cold exposure is characterized by erythema, swelling, wheals, or papules.
Potential impacts of direct mechanisms of climate change on human health in the Arctic 2009
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What the story did not include was the fact that the Soongs had a familial skin problem related to the wheals that had dogged May-ling as a child and the outbreaks that followed.
The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009
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Their diagnostic wheals were much larger, at 5.3 mm.
Big News! Test May Tell if Your Infant Will Always Be Allergic to Milk Steve Carper 2006
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He then retested them at the ages of 1, 2, and 4 with the standard skin-prick test and measured the size of the wheals (swellings) that developed.
Big News! Test May Tell if Your Infant Will Always Be Allergic to Milk Steve Carper 2006
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He then retested them at the ages of 1, 2, and 4 with the standard skin-prick test and measured the size of the wheals (swellings) that developed.
Archive 2006-06-01 Steve Carper 2006
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