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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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
A vesicular or bullous lesion may become immediately surrounded by a ring-like vesicle or bleb, and outside of this another form; a patch may be made up of as many as several such rings—herpes iris.
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
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.
A vesicle, bleb, and pustule are hollow; macule, papule, and tubercle are solid.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson
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