chilblain
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chilblain
- /t͡ʃɪlbleɪn/
Where it comes from
From chill + blain, literally “cold sore”.
noun chilblains · chillblain
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An itchy purple red inflammation of the skin, especially of the hands, feet and ears, occurring when capillaries below the skin are damaged by exposure to cold weather (but do not freeze, which would lead to frostbite instead).
Faith and those chilblanes are a foul trouble, Mistresse Merie-thought when your youth comes home, let him rub all the soles of his feete, and the heeles, and his ancles, with a mouse skinne, or if none of your people can catch a mouse, when hee goes to bed, let him rowle his feete in the warme embe
Similar: erythema pernio, pernio, kibe
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noun inflammation
| Español | sabañón, friera |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 동창 dongchang |
| 日本語 | 霜焼け shimoyake, 霜焼 shimoyake, 凍瘡 tōsō, 凍傷 tōshō |
| 中文 | 凍瘡 /冻疮 dòngchuāng, 凍傷 /冻伤 dòngshāng, 瘃 zhú |
| Português | frieira |
| Français | engelure |
| Deutsch | Frostbeule |
| Italiano | gelone |
| Ελληνικά | χιονίστρα chionístra |
| Română | degerătură |
| Русский | обмороже́ние obmorožénije, обморо́женное ме́сто obmoróžennoje mésto |
| Tiếng Việt | cước |
| العربية | شَرَث šaraṯ, تَوَرُّم أَصَابِيع tawarrum ʔaṣābīʕ |
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title = {chilblain},
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