Bullae vs Blister - What's the difference?
bullae | blister |
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.
* Grainger
A swelling on a plant.
(medicine) Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine.
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , I.168:
A bubble, as on a painted surface.
(roofing) 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
To cause blisters to form.
*
To criticise severely.
To break out in blisters.
As nouns the difference between bullae and blister
is that bullae is plural of bulla while blister is 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.As a verb blister is
to cause blisters to form.blister
English
Noun
(wikipedia blister) (en noun)- Painful blisters swelled my tender hands.
- (Dunglison)
- 'T is written in the Hebrew Chronicle, / How the physicians, leaving pill and potion, / Prescribed, by way of blister , a young belle, / When old King David's blood grew dull in motion, / And that the medicine answered very well [...].
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