chilblain

chilblain
    n 1: inflammation of the hands and feet caused by exposure to
         cold and moisture [syn: {chilblain}, {chilblains},
         {pernio}]
    

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]
    

Chilblain \Chil"blain`\, v. t.
   To produce chilblains upon.
   [1913 Webster]
    

97 Moby Thesaurus words for "chilblain":
      Minamata disease, 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, 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