bleb
Americannoun
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Medicine/Medical. a blister or vesicle.
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a bubble.
noun
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a fluid-filled blister on the skin
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a small air bubble
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Origin of bleb
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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
The cheeks and the backs of the hands were each covered with a single bleb.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 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.
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
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