What's the difference between blister and bulla?

Blister


Definition:

  • (n.) A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fluid causing a bladderlike elevation of the cuticle.
  • (n.) Any elevation made by the separation of the film or skin, as on plants; or by the swelling of the substance at the surface, as on steel.
  • (n.) A vesicatory; a plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter, applied to raise a blister.
  • (v. i.) To be affected with a blister or blisters; to have a blister form on.
  • (v. t.) To raise a blister or blisters upon.
  • (v. t.) To give pain to, or to injure, as if by a blister.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Advocates would point to the influence Giggs maintains in the United midfield – developing a more creative game from a central role to compensate for the loss of his once blistering pace.
  • (2) We have previously characterized the kinetics of prostaglandin D2 (PGD2) production at cutaneous sites of allergic inflammation employing a blister-chamber model.
  • (3) In addition, various tissue cages and the use of skin blisters has been a popular means for testing antibiotic penetration into extra-cellular fluid.
  • (4) Patients with moderate or severe rheumatoid disease of the hands often could not extract tablets from blister packs.
  • (5) Suction blisters were raised on psoriatic lesions and normal appearing skin.
  • (6) After distribution of the agents in the body, the concentrations of both drugs in blister and parenteral fluid were similar to those in serum.
  • (7) Symptoms included surface lesions, blisters and abscesses.
  • (8) We describe a skin blister chamber technique with a novel multiwell device which allows the observation of cell accumulation under different conditions, i.e., in presence and in absence of a foreign body (coverslip).
  • (9) Institution of systemic corticosteroid therapy resulted in a satisfactory clinical response and cessation of the blistering process.
  • (10) The BB-isoenzyme was found to be the predominant form in blister fluid while only the MM isoenzyme was found in serum.
  • (11) The pruritic effect of purified bile salts has been tested by applying them to blister bases.
  • (12) The time course of appearance and the dynamic changes of immunocompetent cells were assessed in human skin following sterile suction blister would healing.
  • (13) The patterns of in vivo release of histamine and tryptase were determined during prolonged Ag incubation in atopic individuals, using skin chambers placed over denuded skin blister sites.
  • (14) Concentrations of ceftriaxone and cefotaxime were measured by Andrews and Wise in blister fluids, in ascites and pleural fluid by us.
  • (15) It is a Saturday afternoon in the southern Turkish town of Antakya, blisteringly hot.
  • (16) The keratinocytes of the blister roof showed aggregation of the tonofibrils at the periphery, and vacuolization of mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum.
  • (17) The most often used experimental models (different tissue cage models the fibrin clot, skin blisters, skin windows, skin chambers) applied in animal and man for studies of antibiotics are presented as well as a discussion concerning their relevance to the clinical situation.
  • (18) This paper is the first published report of vesicular dermatitis due to blister beetles of the family Meloidae in Panamá.
  • (19) A search for an intact blister is always warranted when erosions, oozing, or crusts are noted.
  • (20) The lesions on the UV-A-exposed skin are mainly erythema and blisters.

Bulla


Definition:

  • (n.) A bleb; a vesicle, or an elevation of the cuticle, containing a transparent watery fluid.
  • (n.) The ovoid prominence below the opening of the ear in the skulls of many animals; as, the tympanic or auditory bulla.
  • (n.) A leaden seal for a document; esp. the round leaden seal attached to the papal bulls, which has on one side a representation of St. Peter and St. Paul, and on the other the name of the pope who uses it.
  • (n.) A genus of marine shells. See Bubble shell.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A hallmark of C. septicum infection is the absence of acute inflammatory cells in involved tissues or in bulla fluid.
  • (2) These criteria were typed as A through D starting with nuclear homogenization and passing through vesicle formation, bulla formation and finally ulceration.
  • (3) 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.
  • (4) To test ciliary clearance, the fluid was placed in either the tympanum or the mastoid bulla.
  • (5) At the end of the experimental period, tissue specimens were obtained, and histomorphometric evaluation of the ventral bullae was performed.
  • (6) the present report deals with a mason without previous dermatitis, presenting bullae, ulcers and necrosis in lower limbs, short time after incidental contact at work, with premixed concrete.
  • (7) The ciliary activity in the bulla was declined at any time examined.
  • (8) The eyes of certain marine gastropods including Aplysia and Bulla, contain circadian pacemakers, which produce a circadian rhythm of autogenous compound action potential (CAP) activity.
  • (9) These findings suggest that pulmonary bullae and eosinophilic pneumonia may be a rare manifestation of pulmonary aspergillosis.
  • (10) Vibrio vulnificus was isolated from blood and bullae in both patients.
  • (11) Twenty guinea pigs were immunized with horseradish peroxidase (HRP) intradermally and challenged with 5 mg of the same antigen in the tympanic bulla.
  • (12) In the present experiments, human temporal bones, guinea pigs' bullae and plastic models were used.
  • (13) Papillary dermal edema, subepidermal bullae, and spongiosis were prominent.
  • (14) Acute inflammation was followed by the development of highly vascular granulation tissue and formation of new bone within the middle ear bulla.
  • (15) The patient developed a confluent maculopapular erythema and large flaccid bullae of trunk, legs, feet and mucous membranes, with fever up to 38 degrees C. Toxic epidermal necrolisis (TEN) was supposed and the diagnosis was confirmed by a skin patch test followed by cutaneous biopsy.
  • (16) This method makes it possible to examine both mediastinal pleura and adhesive pleural space, and to electrocoagulate bullae which cannot be visualized by a rigid thoracoscope.
  • (17) The time for complete absorption of these circumscribed subretinal bullae ranged from 8 to 52 weeks (mean 22.7 weeks).
  • (18) Favorable radiographic findings included well-defined, large air spaces without stigmata of diffuse emphysema, serial films showing rapid enlargement of bullae, and expiration films with good thoracic motion and obscuration of lung around bullae.
  • (19) Surgical procedures included lobectomy (n = 317), pneumonectomy (n = 41), wedge resection (n = 82), resections of blebs or bullae (n = 17), thoracotomy and biopsy for unresectable lesion (n = 6), and decortication (n = 5).
  • (20) The latter may have been related to the circumferential distribution of the bullae around each lung.