'Chilblain' definitions:
Definition of 'chilblain'
From: WordNet
noun
Inflammation of the hands and feet caused by exposure to cold and moisture [syn: chilblain, chilblains, pernio]
Definition of 'Chilblain'
From: GCIDE
- Chilblain \Chil"blain`\, chilblains \chil"blains\, n. [Chill + Blain.] A blain, sore, or inflammatory swelling of the feet or hands, produced by exposure to cold, and attended by itching, pain, and sometimes ulceration.
- Syn: pernio. [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
Definition of 'Chilblain'
From: GCIDE
- Chilblain \Chil"blain`\, v. t. To produce chilblains upon. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'chilblain'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abscess,
- ache,
- aching,
- altitude sickness,
- anoxemia,
- anoxia,
- anoxic anoxia,
- anthrax,
- aposteme,
- bed sore,
- black lung,
- blain,
- bleb,
- blister,
- boil,
- bubo,
- bulla,
- bunion,
- caisson disease,
- canker,
- canker sore,
- carbuncle,
- chancre,
- chancroid,
- chilblains,
- chill,
- chilliness,
- chilling,
- cold creeps,
- cold shivers,
- cold sore,
- creeps,
- cryopathy,
- decompression sickness,
- dithers,
- duck bumps,
- eschar,
- felon,
- fester,
- festering,
- fever blister,
- fistula,
- frostbite,
- furuncle,
- furunculus,
- gathering,
- goose bumps,
- goose pimples,
- gooseflesh,
- gumboil,
- hemorrhoids,
- horripilation,
- immersion foot,
- itai,
- jet lag,
- kibe,
- lead poisoning,
- lesion,
- mercury poisoning,
- Minamata disease,
- motion sickness,
- papula,
- papule,
- paronychia,
- parulis,
- petechia,
- piles,
- pimple,
- pneumoconiosis,
- pock,
- polyp,
- pustule,
- radiation sickness,
- radionecrosis,
- red-out,
- rising,
- scab,
- shivering,
- shivers,
- soft chancre,
- sore,
- stigma,
- sty,
- sunstroke,
- suppuration,
- swelling,
- the bends,
- trench foot,
- tubercle,
- ulcer,
- ulceration,
- wale,
- welt,
- wheal,
- whelk,
- whitlow,
- wound