A small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease or infection.
A type of pre-formed packaging made from plastic that contains cavities.
A form of smelted copper with a blistered surface.
An enclosed pocket of air, which may be mixed with water or solvent vapor, trapped between impermeable layers of felt or between the membrane and substrate.
A bubble, as on a painted surface.
Hyponyms: bulla, vesicle, vesicula.
A cause of annoyance.
A swelling on a plant.
Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine.
To break out in blisters.
To sear after blaching.
To raise blisters on.
To have a blister form.
To criticise severely.
A hardened area of the skin (especially on the foot or hand) caused by repeated friction, wear or use.
A shining area on the frons of many species of Tabanomorpha (horse flies and relatives).
The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistency, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece.
The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets.
To form such hardened tissue.