bleb
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bleb
- /blɛb/
Rhymes with -ɛb
Where it comes from
Possibly onomatopoeic, similarly to blob and blubber.
noun blebs
- A bubble, such as in paint or glass.
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A large vesicle or bulla, usually containing a serous fluid.
2008, Lin Her-Shyuan Lin, Adam C, Reynolds, 180: Filtering Blebs and Associated Problems, Frederick Hampton Roy, Frederick W. Fraunfelder, Frederick T. Fraunfelder (editors), Roy and Fraunfelder's Current Ocular Therapy, 6th Edition, page 340,
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Similar: blister
- An irregular bulge in the plasma membrane of a cell undergoing apoptosis. Figure 4.20 reveals blebs on the surface of a bacterial cell. In many instances, these blebs are released from the cell into the surrounding media.
- A bubble-like inclusion of one mineral within another. 1974, George E. Stoertz, George E. Ericksen, Geology of Salars in Northern Chile, Geological Survey Professional Paper 811, page 32, Figure 23. […] The crust is underlain by silty sand, which is loosely cemented by a meshwork of gypsum crystals and contains blebs and small nodules of white ulexite (
verb blebs · blebbing · blebbed
- To form, or cause the formation of, blebs. And there, while big drops bow the grassy stems, / And bleb the withering hay with pearly gems,/ Dimple the brook, and patter in the leaves, / The song or tale ah hour's restraint relieves.
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