Noun

(en noun)

The state of being swollen.

* {{quote-book

, year= a1420 , year_published= 1894 , author= The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056 , by= (Lanfranc of Milan) , title= Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie." , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=6XktAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA63 , original= , chapter= Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone , section= , isbn= 1163911380 , edition= , publisher= K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co , location= London , editor= Robert von Fleischhacker , volume= , page= 63 , passage= Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge ; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra. }}

Anything swollen, especially any abnormally swollen part of the body.

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