About The Word Blister

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Blister

Blister Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Blister?
[n] (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid
[v] get blistered; "Her feet blistered during the long hike" [v] scorch with words; "blistering criticism; whipping comments" Synonyms | Synonyms for Blister: bleb | bulla | vesicate | whip Related Terms | Find terms related to Blister: abscess | air bubble | aposteme | assail | attack | balloon | bed sore | bilge | birthmark | blackhead | bladder | blain | blaze | bleb | blemish | blob | blood blister | boil | boss | bow | brand | bubble | bubo | bulb | bulge | bulla | bump | bunch | bunion | burl | burn | burn in | burn off | button | cahot | canker | canker sore | carbuncle | cast | castigate | cauterize | chancre | chancroid | char | check | chilblain | chine | cicatrix | clump | coal | cold sore | comedo | condyle | convex | crack | crater | craze | cupel | defacement | defect | deformation | deformity | disfiguration | disfigurement | distortion | dowel | ear | eschar | excoriate | fault | felon | fester | festering | fever blister | fistula | flame | flange | flap | flaw | flay | found | freckle | furuncle | furunculus | fustigate | gall | gathering | globule | gnarl | gumboil | handle | hemangioma | hemorrhoids | hickey | hill | hump | hunch | jog | joggle | keloid | kibe | kink | knob | knot | knur | knurl | lash | lentigo | lesion | lip | loop | lump | milium | mole | mountain | needle scar | nevus | nub | nubbin | nubble | oxidate | oxidize | papilloma | papula | papule | parch | paronychia | parulis | peg | petechia | piles | pimple | pit | pock | pockmark | polyp | port-wine mark | port-wine stain | pustule | pyrolyze | rib | ridge | rift | ring | rising | roast | scab | scar | scarify | scathe | scorch | scourge | scratch | sear | sebaceous cyst | shoulder | singe | skin alive | slash | soap bubble | soft chancre | solder | sore | spine | split | stigma | strawberry mark | stud | sty | style | suppuration | swelling | swinge | tab | torrefy | track | trounce | tubercle | tubercule | twist | ulcer | ulceration | verruca | vesicate | vesicle | vulcanize | wale | warp | wart | weal | weld | welt | wen | wheal | whelk | whitehead | whitlow | wound See Also | assail | assault | attack | blood blister | cyst | intumesce | lash out | round | snipe | swell | swell up | tumefy | vesicle | water blister Blister In Webster's Dictionary \Blis"ter\, n. [OE.; akin to OD. bluyster, fr. the same
root as blast, bladder, blow. See {Blow} to eject wind.]
1. A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum,
whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a
vesicatory; a collection of serous fluid causing a
bladderlike elevation of the cuticle.
And painful blisters swelled my tender hands.
--Grainger.
2. Any elevation made by the separation of the film or skin,
as on plants; or by the swelling of the substance at the
surface, as on steel.
3. A vesicatory; a plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter,
applied to raise a blister. --Dunglison.
{Blister beetle}, a beetle used to raise blisters, esp. the
{Lytta (or Cantharis) vesicatoria}, called {Cantharis} or
{Spanish fly} by druggists. See {Cantharis}.
{Blister fly}, a blister beetle.
{Blister plaster}, a plaster designed to raise a blister; --
usually made of Spanish flies.
{Blister steel}, crude steel formed from wrought iron by
cementation; -- so called because of its blistered
surface. Called also {blistered steel}.
{Blood blister}. See under {Blood}.
\Blis"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Blistered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Blistering}.] To be affected with a blister or blisters; to have a blister form on. Let my tongue blister. --Shak. \Blis"ter\, v. t. 1. To raise a blister or blisters upon. My hands were blistered. --Franklin. 2. To give pain to, or to injure, as if by a blister. This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongue. --Shak. |
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