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bleb

American  
[bleb] / blɛb /

noun

  1. Medicine/Medical. a blister or vesicle.

  2. a bubble.


bleb British  
/ blɛb /

noun

  1. a fluid-filled blister on the skin

  2. a small air bubble

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of bleb

First recorded in 1600–10; akin to blob, blubber

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I think if you can get it out with scissors, it’s probably a bleb.

From Washington Post Oct. 9, 2020

When administered, the injected vaccine leaves a small blister, called a bleb, under the skin.

From Washington Post

Very exceptionally a vesicular or bleb tendency in some of the lesions has been noted; doubtless, in most instances at least, this has been due to the arsenic so generally administered in this disease.

From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman

Bleb, bleb, n. a transparent blister of the cuticle: a bubble, as in water.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

In many cases this swelling amounts to a bleb which may be increased by massage of or pressure upon the eyeball.

From Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 by Nance, Willis O.

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