run-roundn.

1833 D. H. Whitney Family Physician 415 There are four kinds [of whitlow or fellon], distinguished by the depth at which they are situated in the finger. The first is seated immediately under the outer skin, and called a run round.

1857 Knickerbocker 49 97 There comes us a ‘run-round’ on the end of our pen-finger.

1920 G. G. Campbell Common Dis. Skin 28 The disease spreads rapidly at the periphery; when starting at the root of the nail, it soon encircles the linger, constituting the familiar ‘run round’.

1958 H. Wain Story Behind Word 238/2 Paronychia, designating a ‘run-round’ or whitlow, this is an ancient term which was applied by Hippocrates to an inflammation around the fingernail.