blisters

Noun

blister (countable and uncountable, plural blisters)

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.
   • Inspect them for rub marks and blisters; tape or bandage rub marks; clean the skin around a blister, use a sterilised needle to puncture it at its outer edge and press out the fluid, then bandage.1967, Donald Howard Grainger, Don't Die in the Bundu
2. A swelling on a plant.
3. Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine.
   • '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 […]1819–1824, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London, (please specify |canto=I to XVII)
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.
   • blister card

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