| Pronunciation: | | bleb
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| | Definition: | | [n] (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid |
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| | Synonyms: | | blister, bulla |
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| | See Also: | | blood blister, cyst, vesicle, water blister |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Bleb\, n. [Prov. E. bleb, bleib, blob, bubble, blister.
This word belongs to the root of blub, blubber, blabber, and
perh. blow to puff.]
A large vesicle or bulla, usually containing a serous fluid;
a blister; a bubble, as in water, glass, etc.
Arsenic abounds with air blebs. --Kirwan.
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| | Related Terms: | | abscess, air bubble, aposteme, balloon, bed sore, bilge, birthmark, blackhead, bladder, blain, blemish, blister, blob, blood blister, boil, boss, bow, bubble, bubo, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, bunion, burl, button, cahot, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid, check, chilblain, chine, cicatrix, clump, cold sore, comedo, condyle, convex, crack, crater, craze, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, dowel, ear, eschar, fault, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fistula, flange, flap, flaw, freckle, furuncle, furunculus, gall, gathering, globule, gnarl, gumboil, handle, hemangioma, hemorrhoids, hickey, hill, hump, hunch, jog, joggle, keloid, kibe, kink, knob, knot, knur, knurl, lentigo, lesion, lip, loop, lump, milium, mole, mountain, needle scar, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, papilloma, papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, peg, petechia, piles, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, polyp, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, pustule, rib, ridge, rift, ring, rising, scab, scar, scratch, sebaceous cyst, shoulder, soap bubble, soft chancre, sore, spine, split, stigma, strawberry mark, stud, sty, style, suppuration, swelling, tab, track, tubercle, tubercule, twist, ulcer, ulceration, verruca, vesicle, wale, warp, wart, weal, welt, wen, wheal, whelk, whitehead, whitlow, wound |
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