BLEB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bleb mean? 

• BLEB (noun)
  The noun BLEB has 1 sense:

1. (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid

  Familiarity information: BLEB used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLEB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

bleb; blister; bulla

Hypernyms ("bleb" is a kind of...):

cyst; vesicle (a small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure (especially one containing fluid))

Domain category:

pathology (the branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bleb"):

water blister (blister containing a nonpurulent clear watery content)

blood blister (blister containing blood or bloody serum usually caused by an injury)

pustule (a small inflamed elevation of skin containing pus; a blister filled with pus)

Derivation:

blebby (covered with small blisters)

 Context examples 

Membrane blebs can be caused by elevated pressure within the cell, so the researchers hypothesized that intracellular pressure might drive this type of motility.

(New Mechanism of Cell Movement Revealed, NIH)

They be nowt but air-blebs.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Lobopodial cells are marked along their sides by “blebs,” or bulges in the cell membrane.

(New Mechanism of Cell Movement Revealed, NIH)