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Blister vs Ulcerate - What's the difference?

blister | ulcerate |

As verbs the difference between blister and ulcerate

is that blister is to cause blisters to form while ulcerate is to cause an ulcer to develop.

As a noun 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 an adjective ulcerate is

having an ulcus, a rounded pore-like aperture, at one or both poles.

blister

English

Noun

(wikipedia blister) (en noun)
  • 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
    • Painful blisters swelled my tender hands.
  • A swelling on a plant.
  • (medicine) Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine.
    • (Dunglison)
  • * 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , I.168:
    • '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 [...].
  • 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
    • blister card
    blister pack

    Synonyms

    * bleb

    Derived terms

    * blister pack

    Verb

  • To cause blisters to form.
  • *
  • To criticise severely.
  • To break out in blisters.

    • Derived terms

    * blistery * blood blister

    Synonyms

    * vesicate

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    ulcerate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (palynology, of a pollen grain) Having an ulcus, a rounded pore-like aperture, at one or both poles.

    • Derived terms

    * monoulcerate

    Verb

    (ulcerat)
  • (medicine) To cause an ulcer to develop.
    • The surface was ulcerated by trauma.
  • (medicine) To become ulcerous.
    • The tissue ulcerated shortly after exposure.

    Derived terms

    * ulceration * ulcerative * ulcerative colitis * ulcerative gingivitis ----