What's the difference between blister and burn?

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.

Burn


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.
  • (v. t.) To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the grass.
  • (v. t.) To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime.
  • (v. t.) To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to burn charcoal; to burn letters into a block.
  • (v. t.) To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; as, to burn the mouth with pepper.
  • (v. t.) To apply a cautery to; to cauterize.
  • (v. t.) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as, a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration; to burn iron in oxygen.
  • (v. i.) To be of fire; to flame.
  • (v. i.) To suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat.
  • (v. i.) To have a condition, quality, appearance, sensation, or emotion, as if on fire or excessively heated; to act or rage with destructive violence; to be in a state of lively emotion or strong desire; as, the face burns; to burn with fever.
  • (v. i.) To combine energetically, with evolution of heat; as, copper burns in chlorine.
  • (v. i.) In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
  • (n.) A hurt, injury, or effect caused by fire or excessive or intense heat.
  • (n.) The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn.
  • (n.) A disease in vegetables. See Brand, n., 6.
  • (n.) A small stream.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is a fascinating possibility for solving the skin shortage problem especially in burn cases.
  • (2) Zinc in plasma and urine and serum albumin and alpha 2-macroglobulin were measured in 48 patients with burns.
  • (3) With the exception of PMMA and PTFE, all plastics leave a very heavy tar- and soot deposit after burning.
  • (4) The patient later died from complications of burns.
  • (5) In clinical situations on donor sites and grafted full-thickness burn wounds, the PEU film indeed prevented fluid accumulation and induced the formation of a "red" coagulum underneath.
  • (6) Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as [burning] fossil fuels.” The recommendation follows advice last year that a vegetarian diet was better for the planet from Lord Nicholas Stern , former adviser to the Labour government on the economics of climate change.
  • (7) For the purpose of studying the role of elastase and protease of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in bacterial infection in burns, the effects of the vaccines made from each enzyme, their toxoids and OEP on protection against infection in burned mice were studied.
  • (8) The authors report on their experience in the use of cultured keratinocytes in severely burned children, observed in the Surgical Emergency and Pediatric Surgery Department at the Gaslini Institute of Genova.
  • (9) Frequency of symptoms like dizziness, headache, lachrymation, burning sensation in eyes, nausea and anorexia, etc, were much more in the exposed workers.
  • (10) This is triggered not so much by climate change but the cause of global warming itself: the burning of fossil fuels both inside and outside the home, says Farrar.
  • (11) It is often difficult if not impossible to include a pediatric patient in the planning of burn reconstruction.
  • (12) The fact that it is still used is regrettable yet unavoidable at present, but the average quantity is three times less than the mercury released into the atmosphere by burning the extra coal need to power equivalent incandescent bulbs.
  • (13) This phenomenon can have a special significance for defining the vitality in inflammation of bone tissue, in burns and in necrosis of soft tissues a.a. of the Achilles tendon.
  • (14) Kunduz hospital patients 'burned in beds … even wars have rules', says MSF chief Read more The resolution – which was supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and others – requests that Ban present recommendations on measures to prevent attacks and to ensure that those who carry them out are held accountable.
  • (15) A 26-year-old man with 40% full-thickness burns was treated by excision and split-skin grafting on the 7th post-burn day.
  • (16) We conclude that a burn involving the chest wall results in cardiopulmonary abnormalities, not seen after a body burn of a comparable size, which appear to be due to hyperthermia and an increased release of prostacyclin and O2 radicals.
  • (17) During treatment, the mother underwent an abortion and burned her face with kitchen chemicals.
  • (18) The tinsel coiled around a jug of squash and bauble in the strip lighting made a golf-ball size knot of guilt burn in my throat.
  • (19) Significant enhancement of IL-2 production by indomethacin was seen in the burned group (mean, 95%), but not in controls (mean, 23.8%) or normal mice (mean, 17.2%), and similar effects were seen with flurbiprofen.
  • (20) Twenty-one days of treatment of one group of burned rats with the selective beta 2-adrenergic agonist, clenbuterol, increased resting energy expenditure and normalized body weight gain, muscle mass, and muscle protein content.