Blister vs Bulla - What's the difference?
blister | bulla |
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.
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To criticise severely.
To break out in blisters.
(medicine) A blister, vesicle, or other thin-walled cavity or lesion.
(archaeology) A clay envelope or hollow ball, typically with seal impressions or writing on its outside indicating its contents.
(historical) In ancient Rome, a kind of amulet or boss.
Later, a handwritten document from the papal chancellery.
A rich Jamaican cake made with molasses and spiced with ginger and nutmeg.
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As nouns the difference between blister and bulla
is that 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 while bulla is (medicine) a blister, vesicle, or other thin-walled cavity or lesion or bulla can be a rich jamaican cake made with molasses and spiced with ginger and nutmeg.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 [...].
- blister card
- blister pack
