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Answer for the clue "Trace deep source of pain ", 7 letters:
whitlow

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Word definitions for whitlow in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"inflammation on a finger or toe," mid-15c., alteration of whitflaw (c.1400), from flaw , with first element possibly from Dutch vijt or Low German fit "abscess."

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A whitlow is a finger infection. Whitlow may also refer to: Whitlow, California Whitlow (name) , and persons with the name

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail [syn: felon ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An infection under the cuticle of a fingernail or toenail.

Usage examples of whitlow.

Whitlow to go on functioning, even speechifying, in the chill oxygen dearth was by no means so obvious.

First Admiral Dardan reported in person to the prime minister regarding his meeting with Clarence Whitlow.

Whitlow, I don't know how you expect the Lazy Eight to gain the reputation of being a high-class dude ranch if you insist on paying your staff slave wages.

Whitlow, “that it should be put haway somewhere out of ‘arm’s way, if it’s hall the hsame to you.

Didn't Hepzibah Whitlow have the idea of the adjustable pendulum clock as a result of his work as the public hangman?

Of the slaves in the hold who didn't make it, he said, two were Whitlow pickaninnies name of.

I've got to put in an appearance for the Whitlows at a fund-raising dinner for the Santa Fe Opera.