- A small blister or pustule.
- An air bubble.
[Probably alteration of BLOB.]
blebby bleb'by adj.
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A blister or small bubble in a fluid or in a material (such as glass) that has solidified.
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A large flaccid vesicle, usually at least 0.5 inch in diameter.
- pulmonary b. — small pocket of air under the visceral pleura; may be congenital or acquired.
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- For the protrusion of cell membrane present during apoptosis and cell motility, please see Bleb (cell biology). For the book, see Fred Schneider.
In medicine, bleb is a large blister (usually approximately hemispherical) filled with serous fluid. Blebs can form in a number of tissues due to different pathologies, including frostbitten tissues, and as a cause of spontaneous pneumothorax. In the lungs, a bleb is a collection of air within the layers of the visceral pleura. In ophthalmology, blebs may be formed intentionally in the treatment of glaucoma.
In geology, mineralogy, and petrology, bleb is a small bubble-like inclusion of one mineral within a larger mineral. An example is a bleb of sylvite within chlorite.
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- Medical definition of bleb on MedicineNet.com
- Moorfields Bleb Grading System
References
- Sunil JS. 2005. Inadvertent filtering bleb following sutureless cataract surgery. Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 53(3): 196-198
- Kamenetsky VS et al. Chloride and carbonate immiscible liquids at the closure of the kimberlite magma evolution (Udachnaya-East kimberlite, Siberia) Chemical Geology, Volume 237, Issues 3-4, 5 March 2007, Pages 384-400
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