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(pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid
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bleb
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In medicine , a bleb is a blister (often hemispherical) filled with serous fluid . Blebs can form in a number of tissues due to different pathologies, including frostbitten tissues, and as a cause of spontaneous pneumothorax . In ophthalmology , blebs may ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "blister or swelling," imitative. Also used for "bubble" (1640s), "protuberance on a cell surface" (1962).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bleb \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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A bubble, such as in paint or glass. 2 (context medicine English) A large vesicle or bulla, usually containing a serous fluid. 3 (context cytology English) An irregular bulge in the plasma membrane of a cell undergoing apoptosis. 4 (context geology ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid [syn: blister , bulla ]
Usage examples of bleb.
How ' d you li ke to have a drunken numbwit the only thing between your ass and a bleb of red-hot basalt?
He took a herendorf bleb from the medical kit Amerie had prepared for them and applied the dose to Burke's temple.
How'd you like to have a drunken numbwit the only thing between your ass and a bleb of red-hot basalt?
Then, quite slowly, the whole great bleb split and sloughed away and sank, growling, into a cauldron of dust.
Jamie said, bending over and pushing his own hair aside so I could reach the small dark bleb behind his ear.
Sometimes I see a milkiness in the blebs, you know, and I think it’s there to remind me of the babes—” While he maundered on, Tesla realized that the finery he’d unfurled was not a garment at all: It was his body.
The gems, the blebs as he’d called them, were indeed a kind of fruit, grown from flesh and sorrow.
Rare Utu loosed the wordOwen like a shriek, and started to pull at her captor, while Haheh’s body ran like butter in a furnace, the blebs bursting in wheels of colors and pouring off into the street.
The gems, the blebs as he'd called them, were indeed a kind of fruit, grown from flesh and sorrow.
Rare Utu loosed the word Owen like a shriek, and started to pull at her captor, while Haheh's body ran like butter in a furnace, the blebs bursting in wheels of colors and pouring off into the street.
Where the magus Kerein had been there stood a lumpy parody of humanity that appeared to be sculpted from grey blebs of cauliflower.
Spreading rings of dark blood began to seep through the front of its robes, dripping from the warty blebs that covered its naked skin.
The bites didn't hurt at first, but gradually turned into red blebs that burned like hot needles.
That’s when she noticed tiny blebs beneath the skin of his chest and when she pressed them with her fingers, they made tiny crinkly sounds, like bubbles in a plastic polymer.
If he survives the next few days, we'll get blebs and maybe have some tissue loss, but that's the least of our problems.