A whitlow or felon is an infection of the tip of the finger.

A felon is an "extremely painful abscess on the palmar aspect of the fingertip".

The terms whitlow and felon are also sometimes misapplied to paronychia, which is an infection of the tissue at the side or base of the nail.

Felon presents with a throbbing pain, clinically.

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