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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
whitlow /ˈwɪtləʊ/

▶noun an abscess in the soft tissue near a fingernail or toenail.

– origin ME (also as whitflaw, -flow), appar. from white + flaw1 in the sense ‘crack’, but perh. rel. to Du. fijt ‘whitlow’.

'whitlow' also found in these Oxford entries:

felon - whitlow grass

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