bleb

bleb
Synonyms and related words:
abscess, air bubble, aposteme, balloon, bed sore, bilge, birthmark, blackhead, bladder, blain, blemish, blister, blob, blood blister, boil, boss, bow, bubble, bubo, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, bunion, burl, button, cahot, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid, check, chilblain, chine, cicatrix, clump, cold sore, comedo, condyle, convex, crack, crater, craze, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, dowel, ear, eschar, fault, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fistula, flange, flap, flaw, freckle, furuncle, furunculus, gall, gathering, globule, gnarl, gumboil, handle, hemangioma, hemorrhoids, hickey, hill, hump, hunch, jog, joggle, keloid, kibe, kink, knob, knot, knur, knurl, lentigo, lesion, lip, loop, lump, milium, mole, mountain, needle scar, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, papilloma, papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, peg, petechia, piles, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, polyp, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, pustule, rib, ridge, rift, ring, rising, scab, scar, scratch, sebaceous cyst, shoulder, soap bubble, soft chancre, sore, spine, split, stigma, strawberry mark, stud, sty, style, suppuration, swelling, tab, track, tubercle, tubercule, twist, ulcer, ulceration, verruca, vesicle, wale, warp, wart, weal, welt, wen, wheal, whelk, whitehead, whitlow, wound

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  • 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.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • bleb — bleb; bleb·bing; bleb·by; …   English syllables

  • bleb — [bleb] n. [echoic: to represent the sound produced in forming a bubble with the lips] 1. a small swelling under the skin; a blister or vesicle 2. an air bubble, as in water or glass blebby adj …   English World dictionary

  • bleb — (n.) c.1600, blister or swelling, imitative. Also used for bubble (1640s), protuberance on a cell surface (1962) …   Etymology dictionary

  • bleb|by — «BLEHB ee», adjective. full of blebs …   Useful english dictionary

  • Bleb — For the protrusion of cell membrane present during apoptosis and cell motility, please see Bleb (cell biology). In medicine, bleb is a large blister (usually approximately hemispherical) filled with serous fluid. Blebs can form in a number of… …   Wikipedia

  • Bleb — A bladder like structure more than 5 mm in diameter with thin walls that may be full of fluid. Also called a bulla. * * * 1. A large flaccid vesicle. 2. An acquired lung cyst, usually less than 1 cm in diameter, similar to but smaller than a… …   Medical dictionary

  • bleb — noun Etymology: perhaps alteration of blob Date: 1607 1. a small blister 2. bubble; also a small particle 3. something resembling a bleb; especially a vesicular …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • bleb — blebby, adj. /bleb/, n. 1. Med. a blister or vesicle. 2. a bubble. [1600 10; akin to BLOB, BLUBBER] * * * …   Universalium

  • bleb — n. a blister or large vesicle. A filtering bleb is a blister like cyst underneath the conjunctiva resulting from trabeculectomy, a surgical procedure commonly used in the treatment of glaucoma …   The new mediacal dictionary

  • bleb — [[t]blɛb[/t]] n. 1) med a blister or vesicle 2) a bubble • Etymology: 1600–10 bleb′by, adj …   From formal English to slang

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