blister

Meaning

Noun

1. 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.
2. A swelling on a plant.
3. Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine.
4. A bubble, as on a painted surface.
5. 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.
6. A type of pre-formed packaging made from plastic that contains cavities.
7. A cause of annoyance.
8. A form of smelted copper with a blistered surface.

Verb

1. To raise blisters on.
2. To sear after blaching.
3. To have a blister form.
4. To criticise severely.
5. To break out in blisters.

Concepts

blister

vesicle

bleb

bubble

boil

pimple

swell

callus

bump

corn

swelling

vesicate

bulla

bladder

protuberance

scald

pustule

cyst

spot

water blister

bulge

lump

burn

whip

abscess

ampulla

bulb

glow lamp

sac

ampoule

be very hot

herpes

be inflamed

be inflated

be swollen

heat rash

papule

prickly heat

sudamen

sudamina

sore

flake

peel off

bake

overheat

puff

form pus

blast

blow up

cauterize

fire

ignite

light

set on fire

bubbling

tympanic bulla

blistered

boom

clap

clatter

exploded

explosion

pop

callosity

draught

weal

craw

crop

goitre

gorge

jowl

vesicula

blister pack

callous

corns

vesica

blain

follicle

clepsydra

water clock

peel

skin

chicken pox

bruise

carbuncle

foam

crack

explode

tumor

diolame

prepuce

wrappage

blemish

fleck

macula

maculation

macule

measles

punctum

smudge

speckle

spottiness

stigma

tache

air bubble

alveolar

gas cavity

hydroa

phlycten

phlyctena

alveolus

bath

froth

immerse

soak

steep

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈblɪstə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From Middle English blister, from Old French blestre, from a Germanic source. Compare Middle Dutch blyster (“swelling”), Old Norse blastr (“a blowing”).