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 type of pre-formed packaging made from plastic that contains cavities.
A form of smelted copper with a blistered surface.
A bubble, as on a painted surface.
Hyponyms: bulla, vesicle, vesicula.
A cause of annoyance.
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 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.
The larger of the two fluid-filled cavities forming part of the membranous labyrinth in the vertebrate inner ear (the other being the saccule) and into which the semicircular canals open. It contains hair cells and otoliths which send signals to the brain concerning the orientation of the head.
A dry indehiscent one-seeded fruit with thin membranous pericarp, similar to an achene and found in the beet and dock plants.