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Pain vs Blister - What's the difference?

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Pain is a related term of blister.


As nouns the difference between pain and blister

is that pain is 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 an adverb pain

is towards, in/to the direction of.

As a verb blister is

to cause blisters to form.

pain

English

Noun

  • (countable, and, uncountable) An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
  • The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain .
    I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.
  • (uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress; sadness; grief; solicitude; disquietude.
  • In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.
    The pain of departure was difficult to bear.
  • (countable) An annoying person or thing.
  • Your mother is a right pain .
  • (uncountable, obsolete) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
  • You may not leave this room on pain of death.
    Interpose, on pain of my displeasure. — Dryden
    We will, by way of mulct or pain , lay it upon him. — Bacon
  • Labour; effort; pains.
  • Usage notes

    * Adjectives often used with "pain": mild, moderate, severe, intense, excruciating, debilitating, acute, chronic, sharp, dull, burning, steady, throbbing, stabbing, spasmodic, etc.

    Synonyms

    * (an annoying person or thing) pest * See also

    Antonyms

    * pleasure

    Hyponyms

    * agony * anguish * pang * neuropathic pain * nociceptive pain * phantom pain * psychogenic pain

    Derived terms

    * pain in the arse * pain in the ass * pain in the back * pain in the bum * pain in the butt * pain in the neck * painkiller * painy

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
  • The wound pained him.
  • To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
  • It pains me to say that I must let you go.
  • (obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
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    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.
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  • To criticise severely.
  • To break out in blisters.
  • Derived terms

    * blistery * blood blister

    Synonyms

    * vesicate

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