(n.) A large vesicle or bulla, usually containing a serous fluid; a blister; a bubble, as in water, glass, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) It has been shown by LM and transmission electron microscopy that cells with blebs are viable and capable of mitotic activity.
(2) Transmission electron microscopy demonstrated that these blebs were devoid of organelles and microvilli; scanning electron microscopy revealed that the blebs were highly wrinkled and more numerous than were the projections observed in tissue from animals treated with testosterone alone, or in tissue from unoperated controls.
(3) Combined SEM and TEM examination of the endothelium of compressed segments revealed "craters" and "balloons", blebs and vacuoles, swollen mitochondria, dilated granular endoplasmic reticulum, and subendothelial edema.
(4) Ten filtrating blebs remained after a 5 months' follow-up period.
(5) These early hyperplastic lesions revealed stellate-shaped dilated bile canaliculi lined by blebs and abnormally thick elongated microvilli, a decreased number of microvilli on the sinusoidal surface, a marked increase in smooth endoplasmic reticulum, large nucleoli, and bundles of pericanalicular microfilaments.
(6) Thus, encapsulation of the filtering bleb, although requiring additional surgery in many cases, carries a favorable long-term prognosis.
(7) These mitochondria had a highly electron dense matrix and protrusions or blebs of mitochondrial outer membrane were frequently observed.
(8) An increase of cytosolic free Ca2+ is not the stimulus for bleb formation or the final common pathway leading to cell death.
(9) We recommend this skin incision for young patients with pneumothorax if the chest CT scan confirms that the bullae or blebs are localized to the apex of superior segment of the lower lobe.
(10) They induced modifications in particle distribution, a blebbing of particle-free areas and the appearance of lamellar figures on the plasma membrane of fungus cells.
(11) 2 Treatment of hepatocytes with either NABQI (0.4 mM) or paracetamol (2 mM) alone resulted in a considerable loss of cell viability, as assessed by trypan blue exclusion or leakage of lactate dehydrogenase, accompanied by an increase in the percentage of viable cells that were blebbed.
(12) Experiments where catalase was used to interrupt H2O2 exposure over a long time course revealed 15-30 minutes to be the critical period of exposure to 5 mM H2O2 necessary for a sustained increase in F actin as well as large increases in membrane blebbing and later cell death.
(13) None of the patients treated by operation (plication or resection and suture of the bleb) had a later recurrence.
(14) We have found the early placement of a therapeutic bandage contact lens permits extended administration of 5-FU during this period, minimizing discomfort and inflammation as well as enhancing bleb survival.
(15) Scanning electron microscopy showed the appearance at the culture surface of immature cells with gross surface abnormalities including large numbers of blebs, stubby microvilli and long pleomorphic microvilli.
(16) Vascular changes included perivascular deposits of proteinaceous material presumably from leakage of serum proteins, variable electron lucency of endothelial cell cytoplasm, an apparent increase in pinocytotic vesicles, rare platelet thrombosis of capillaries, and rare intravascular blebs of luminal plasma membrane.
(17) Formation of blebs was dose dependent and preceded release of LDH and trypan blue uptake.
(18) In addition, CHO cells displayed membrane bleb formations similar to those found in CHO cells after exposure to established inhibitors of protein synthesis, puromycin and anisomycin.
(19) The surfaces of the majority of these cells are covered by vesicles or blebs.
(20) In this group, 4 cases bled again because of enlargement or the development of an aneurysmal bleb.
Blub
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To swell; to puff out, as with weeping.
Example Sentences:
(1) Meanwhile, Chelsea fans' disgruntlement grows: "I know Rafa said no more transfers in January but we still need a midfielder and I don't think Roman or Emenalo share their thoughts with Rafa," blubs Mihir Khatwani.
(2) They didn't manage to muster a threat but the mere fact that they prevented Celtic from getting off a shot for a few minutes has audibly raised the tension in the crowd ... 8.03pm BST 18 min: "I hope that the distance travelled explains Celtic's result last week," blubs Ian Kay.
(3) It is a cardinal sin of broadcasting, in my book anyway, to start blubbing on-air.
(4) After watching Kinnock slide to defeat in the 1987 general election, he recalls standing at the Welshman’s shoulder the morning after “ a half-blubbing, mullet-haired 20-year old ”.
(5) "Ah just want to sort out the funeral," she blubbed at the preternaturally patient Chesney, overbite quivering like a hovercraft as the prospect of another 15 years of storylines involving the widow whimpering in her HMP Plot Device netball bib lumbered horrifyingly into view.
(6) Last month, when he lost to Federer in the Wimbledon final, Murray blubbed, feeling he'd let down the hopes of a nation.
(7) But then, considering the emotional power of music and the way it entwines itself around defining moments of your life, I'd find it more pathetic if someone couldn't name a song that made them blub like a big old stupid baby.
(8) 2.49pm GMT Blubbing athlete of the day The skiathlon is proper hardcore activity, and I have immense respect for anyone capable of completing it, let alone doing so faster than anyone else in the entire world.
(9) Thus, instead of Liverpool taking a puncher's chance into the final day, they were left with grown men blubbing on national television and a final 10 minutes that resembled Sideshow Bob stepping on all the rakes .
(10) I'm not saying this is a turnaround like when Andy Murray blubbed and the nation learned to love him.
(11) "People say I come across a bit hard, but you have to be, otherwise you'd be blubbing all the time," she says.
(12) As we said our goodbyes, that group of junior ministers was overcome with grief and began to blub.
(13) While more than 17% of US winners cried at this year's Games, a world-beating 37.5% of Team GB athletes blubbed, according to analysis by the Wall Street Journal .
(14) 2 Kremlin spin-doctors have an explanation for everything Within minutes of Vladimir blubbing in public his spokesman came up with an ingenious explanation: it was the wind.
(15) And my hair's falling out, I'm getting fatter and I keep blubbing, screaming and generally losing it, however charming my customers and friends are.
(16) And please, can I have no emails from bed-wetting kidults blubbing that you can't call us "global warming deniers " because "denier" makes us sound like "Holocaust deniers", and that means you are comparing us to Nazis?