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Bleb definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BLEB, n. [This word belongs to the root of blab, blubber.]
A little tumor, vesicle or blister.
Arsenic abounds with air blebs.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid [syn: blister, bulla, bleb]

Merriam Webster's

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 outgrowth of a plasma or nuclear membrane • blebbing noun • blebby adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 esp. Med. a small blister on the skin. 2 a small bubble in glass or on water. Etymology: var. of BLOB

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. Arsenic abounds with air blebs. --Kirwan.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Blister, vesicle, little tumor. 2. Air-bubble, blob.

Moby Thesaurus

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