What's the difference between welt and wheal?

Welt


Definition:

  • (n.) That which, being sewed or otherwise fastened to an edge or border, serves to guard, strengthen, or adorn it
  • (n.) A small cord covered with cloth and sewed on a seam or border to strengthen it; an edge of cloth folded on itself, usually over a cord, and sewed down.
  • (n.) A hem, border, or fringe.
  • (n.) In shoemaking, a narrow strip of leather around a shoe, between the upper leather and sole.
  • (n.) In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.
  • (n.) In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.
  • (n.) In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed.
  • (n.) A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around the ends.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a welt; to sew or fasten a welt on; as, to welt a boot or a shoe; to welt a sleeve.
  • (v. t.) To wilt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Eight patients with dermal exposure had irritation ranging from erythema to welts, which resolved after thorough soap and water decontamination.
  • (2) Those very arsonists who spread exclusion and intolerance are now projecting an image of themselves as the upright citizens.” The head of the German police trade union Rainer Wendt told Die Welt that he feared the event, which last week drew 18,000 supporters, had itself become a possible magnet for terrorists.
  • (3) In the Prussian capital, hippie culture is state policy.” 'In the Prussian capital, hippie culture is state policy' Die Welt deputy editor Ulf Poschardt The rhetoric may be overblown, but the remarkable fact is that Berlin will ultimately not further develop a hugely valuable piece of real estate, all because the people decided they didn’t trust big business not to mess up the park they loved.
  • (4) Die Welt are lucky to be part of Axel Springer, Europe's largest newspaper publisher whose portfolio also contains Bild, still the world's bestselling non-Asian newspaper and the Germany's most successful news website: pressure on Die Welt to make a profit is relatively low, so they have the luxury to experiment with new models that may later be rolled out elsewhere.
  • (5) After weeks of open criticism, Die Welt also heaped praise on the German coaching team’s tactical flexibility.
  • (6) A sk Becky Hope if she ever feels shocked by what she sees in her work in child protection – the welts on backs, broken limbs, the maggots in cots – and she seems nonplussed.
  • (7) Stark , who surprisingly quit the Board almost a year ago , wrote in Die Welt today that the ECB has been pushed to the brink of abandoning its mandate to control inflation: The political pressure on the central bank is massive... Monetary policy must not be conditional.
  • (8) Major loci affecting the difference between the fast and the slow remating speed map to the right arm of chromosome II to the right of welt (wt).
  • (9) In Paris, as their counterparts at Die Welt were planning their own pages, journalists at the offices of France Soir, an ailing tabloid based in an industrial estate in the north ofthe city, were also deciding that the cartoons should be published - for somewhat different reasons.
  • (10) When one German language school in Istanbul was forced to cancel its festivities, the daily Die Welt responded with a caricature of Erdoğan on its front page as the Grinch who stole Christmas.
  • (11) In his interview with Welt am Sonntag, Hammond also emphasised that restricting immigration would be the British government’s priority during negotiations.
  • (12) Theresa May says rise in Europeans moving to UK likely before a Brexit Read more Volker Bouffier, premier of the German state of Hesse – home to Germany’s financial capital, Frankfurt – told the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag that “quite a number of Brits” were currently applying for German citizenship.
  • (13) One principle-ist, the former parliamentary speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, recently told Die Welt, the German newspaper, that Iran needed "more national manufacturing, and a change in people's lifestyle".
  • (14) Cousin spots Beasley one-on-one with Anderson and welts the ball forward towards him.
  • (15) In the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, Henryk M Broder said of Roche: "She does what she wants without worrying what Simone de Beauvoir or Andrea Dworkin would say about it."
  • (16) I don’t think its a good idea to dilute the sporting value,” the 2014-World Cup-winning coach told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper in an interview on Sunday.
  • (17) Martin Schulz told Die Welt: “We must try to avoid this, because the consequences would be dramatic.
  • (18) But according to Die Welt, some of the leaked documents were part of the communication between the office of the chancellor, Angela Merkel, and that of the president of BND, while others contained an overview of BND locations around the world – which might hint at a more general spying strategy rather than a targeted operation.
  • (19) According to Die Welt newspaper, the staffer being investigated is a soldier who had caught the attention of the German military counter-intelligence service after establishing regular contact with people thought to be working for a US secret agency.
  • (20) But she stepped back from the company at the end of last year, telling Die Welt in an interview that “combining politics on a national, state and local level with family and the company is simply not possible.

Wheal


Definition:

  • (n.) A pustule; a whelk.
  • (n.) A more or less elongated mark raised by a stroke; also, a similar mark made by any cause; a weal; a wale.
  • (n.) Specifically (Med.), a flat, burning or itching eminence on the skin, such as is produced by a mosquito bite, or in urticaria.
  • (n.) A mine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Three patients reacted with a wheal size greater than or equal to a histamine control at a dilution of 1:1,000 and 3 patients at 1:100.
  • (2) The validation of the VSC technique with venous occlusion plethysmography (VOP) showed that the increase of time of disappearance of the wheals is well correlated with the increase of capillary permeability demonstrated by VOP.
  • (3) Cimetidine, an H2-receptor antagonist slightly reduced the effect of clonidine on the wheal and flare reaction.
  • (4) Numerous mast cells were degranulated in late wheals, as shown by electron microscopy.
  • (5) The wheal and erythema reaction caused by intracutaneous application of 5 mug histamine can be inhibited by applying fenoterol in doses from 100--400 mug in form of a metered aerosol on the skin 5 min before the injection of histamine.
  • (6) Treatment with astemizole, as measured at the end point of each patient's treatment and compared to placebo, resulted in significant improvement of pruritus, erythema, number of wheals, frequency of urticarial attacks, and control of urticaria (p less than or equal to 0.03).
  • (7) The surface areas of the wheal and flare responses were measured by planimetry.
  • (8) Substance P produces dose-related wheal and flare reactions in human skin.
  • (9) Clinically, they are characterised by an immediate wheal and flare or a delayed papular to eczematous process.
  • (10) The flare response to SP and histamine was suppressed by capsaicin pretreatment whereas the wheal was enlarged.
  • (11) Histamine caused dose-related increases in blood flow and in areas of wheal and erythema in human skin.
  • (12) The patient developed an immediate type of skin reaction with erythema and whealing following monochromatic irradiation at 400 nm, but did not have any abnormal immediate skin reaction after exposure to natural sunlight.
  • (13) The allergen-triggered wheal and flare reaction in ovalbumin sensitized guinea pigs was potentiated by MK 422 and the late phase reaction of the inflammatory response was especially augmented.
  • (14) Except at high doses the local vasodilatation induced by CGRP was not associated with a wheal and flare as seen with histamine, substance P, and VIP.
  • (15) Two other patients with sunlight-induced solar urticaria, who had an erythema-and-wheal reaction during and after exposure to sunlight, had no suppressive wave bands in either the UV or visible-light range.
  • (16) There were also 3 highly allergic children, with immediate hypersensitivity reactions to other food, who, despite having never been exposed to egg, developed large skin prick test wheals to egg white.
  • (17) It is concluded that the wheal need not be associated with the Provocation-Neutralisation technique, and that a neuropsychological basis for the Provocation-Neutralisation response should be explored.
  • (18) Pressure wheals were characterized by a mild mononuclear perivascular infiltrate and by patchy dermal infiltrates of eosinophils.
  • (19) Sections from the wheals of recent onset 24 hours old or less taken from 11 patients with urticaria were examined by electron microscopy.
  • (20) Five minutes after an id injection of PHA (bactophytohaemoagglutinin M, Difco, 1 mg), mix monilieae, mix tricophyton and PPD Berna, she showed an extensive wheal and flare reaction in the PHA injection area, eyelid oedema and respiratory distress.