whitlow in English

noun
1
an abscess in the soft tissue near a fingernail or toenail.
Herpetic whitlow is an HSV infection of the fingers and toes and may represent a primary infection or a secondary recurrence of type 1 or 2 HSV infection.
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1. Delmonize “Del” Smith and Tiffany Whitlow (courtesy image) Enter Acclinate

2. Whitlow knows that Acclinate’s mission and purpose will be a “slow burn because there isn’t a short cut.”

3. Among the other areas the cold sore virus can infect are the finger (herpetic whitlow) and the eye (ocular herpes).

4. Acclinate co-founder and chief development officer Tiffany Jordan-Whitlow is an innovator and entrepreneur with a combined 15 years’ experience in …

5. Delmonize “Del” Smith, an IT and healthcare guru, and Tiffany Whitlow, who has spent more than 15 years working in healthcare management and community engagement, Acclinate bills itself as a company committed to increasing diversity in clinical trials, improving

6. Cross infection between patients and nurses in a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) provided clear evidence that PICU HCWs risk acquiring serious herpetic infections, i.e. acute pharyngitis or whitlow from patients and vice-versa unless careful attention to infection prevention and control is practised(163).

7. Doctor Käsemann had moral courage enough to introduce Anthracin in gangrene and sphacelus, in 1852, and Doctor Raue has given it in carbuncles, since 1858 (see his Pathology and Diagnosis) and in gangrenic whitlow (see Journal of Clinics, 4, 142)