infection. Most blisters are filled with a clear fluid, either serum or plasma. However, blisters can be filled with blood (known as "blood blisters") or with...
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A blister pack is any of several types of pre-formed plastic packaging used for small consumer goods, foods, and for pharmaceuticals. The primary component...
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Blister beetles are beetles of the family Meloidae, so called for their defensive secretion of a blistering agent, cantharidin. About 7,500 species are...
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A blister agent (or vesicant), is a chemical compound that causes severe skin, eye and mucosal pain and irritation. They are named for their ability to...
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"Blister in the Sun" is a song by American rock band Violent Femmes, originally released on their 1983 self-titled debut album. It was later released...
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Sucking blisters are a cutaneous condition on newborns that is present on their extremities at birth. This is not to be confused with sucking pads, which...
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A blood blister is a type of blister that forms when subdermal tissues and blood vessels are damaged without piercing the skin. It consists of a pool of...
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The Hope Blister were an ambient band that were active from 1997 to 1999. The band was directed by 4AD Records founder Ivo Watts-Russell, with the music...
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Look up blister in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A blister is a small pocket of fluid in the upper layer of the skin caused by heat, electricity, chemicals...
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Edema blisters, also known as edema bulla, hydrostatic bulla, and stasis blister, is a cutaneous condition that develop in patients with an acute exacerbation...
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Friction blisters are characterized by vesicles or bullae.: 43 Coma blister Skin lesion Herring KM, Richie DH (1990). "Friction blisters and sock fiber...
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template. Note: Some researchers have attempted to explain the shadow blister effect using ray theory. However, they overlooked the complexities of the...
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Fracture blisters occur on skin overlying a fractured bone, and fractures complicated by the development of overlying blisters remain a clinical dilemma...
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A coma blister, or coma bullae, is a skin lesion or blister that typically arises due to pressure in an individual with impaired consciousness. They vary...
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Delayed blisters is a cutaneous condition observed weeks to months after the initial healing of second-degree thermal burns, donor sites of split-thickness...
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Cronartium ribicola (redirect from White Pine Blister Rust)
fungus in the family Cronartiaceae that causes the disease white pine blister rust. Other names include: Rouille vésiculeuse du pin blanc (French), white...
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Wither Blister Burn + Peel is the second album by the American industrial rock band Stabbing Westward, released on Columbia Records. The album was recorded...
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Meloe angusticollis (redirect from Short-Winged Blister Beetle)
Meloe angusticollis, commonly known as short-winged blister beetle or oil beetle, is a species of blister beetle, native to North America. They average 8–10...
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Nipple bleb (redirect from Milk blister)
A nipple bleb is a blister on the nipple that can be filled with serous or other fluid. It may be pink or light yellow. It is thin-walled and may appear...
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Cementation process (redirect from Blister steel)
from the carbon in the charcoal, and had become heterogeneous bars of blister steel. The bars were then shortened, bound, heated and forge welded together...
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Lytta magister (redirect from Desert blister beetle)
Lytta magister, the desert blister beetle or master blister beetle, is a species of blister beetle found in southwestern North America. Typically 16 to...
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Pyrota insulata (redirect from Yellow-crescent blister beetle)
yellow-crescent blister beetle, is a blister beetle, so called because if squeezed, it can produce an irritant called cantharidin that causes a blister on exposed...
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Epicauta pensylvanica (redirect from Black blister beetle)
pensylvanica, known generally as the black blister beetle or black aster bug, is a species of burning blister beetle in the family Meloidae. The species...
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the title Blister bush. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Blister bush can refer...
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Blister beetle dermatitis is a cutaneous condition that occurs after contact with any of several types of beetles, including those from the Meloidae and...
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Tincture of benzoin (redirect from U.S. Army blister treatment)
the steam in. It can be applied to skin fissures, canker sores and fever blisters as a styptic and antiseptic. It is thought that light turns the Benzoin...
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Stye (redirect from Eyelid blister)
A stye, also known as a hordeolum, is a bacterial infection of an oil gland in the eyelid. This results in a red tender bump at the edge of the eyelid...
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Cold sore (redirect from Fever blister)
primarily the lip. Symptoms typically include a burning pain followed by small blisters or sores. The first attack may also be accompanied by fever, sore throat...
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Epicauta vittata (redirect from Striped Blister Beetle)
Epicauta vittata is a species of beetle in the family Meloidae, the blister beetles. It is native to eastern North America, including eastern Canada and...
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Anti-torpedo bulge (redirect from Anti-torpedo blister)
The anti-torpedo bulge (also known as an anti-torpedo blister) is a form of defence against naval torpedoes occasionally employed in warship construction...
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