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Whitlow         
·adj An inflammatory disease of the feet. It occurs round the hoof, where an acrid matter is collected.
II. Whitlow ·adj An inflammation of the fingers or toes, generally of the last phalanx, terminating usually in suppuration. The inflammation may occupy any seat between the skin and the bone, but is usually applied to a felon or inflammation of the periosteal structures of the bone.
whitlow         
['w?tl??]
¦ 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. related to Du. fijt 'whitlow'.
whitlow         
n.
(Med.) Felon.

Wikipedia

Whitlow
A whitlow or felon is an infection of the tip of the finger.2flaw and 2quick from Felon comes from the Old French, derived from the Latin root fel-, literally meaning "bile" and referring to the toxic content of the abscess.
Examples of use of Whitlow
1. Whitlow, deployed to Balad Air Base, Iraq, with 22nd Expeditionary Fighter Squadron.
2. Her husband, Gregory Whitlow, is currently stationed at Kadena Air Force Base in Japan.
3. Charles Whitlow Norwood Jr. (R–Ga.), for whom the bill is named.
4. Charles Whitlow Norwood Jr. (R–Ga.) and Rice . LATE EDITION (CNN), 11 a.m.: Sens.
5. Charles Whitlow Norwood Jr. (R–Ga.), a leading critic of the act‘s renewal.