What's the difference between blister and welt?

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.

Welt


Definition:

  • (n.) That which, being sewed or otherwise fastened to an edge or border, serves to guard, strengthen, or adorn it
  • (n.) A small cord covered with cloth and sewed on a seam or border to strengthen it; an edge of cloth folded on itself, usually over a cord, and sewed down.
  • (n.) A hem, border, or fringe.
  • (n.) In shoemaking, a narrow strip of leather around a shoe, between the upper leather and sole.
  • (n.) In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.
  • (n.) In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.
  • (n.) In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed.
  • (n.) A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around the ends.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a welt; to sew or fasten a welt on; as, to welt a boot or a shoe; to welt a sleeve.
  • (v. t.) To wilt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Eight patients with dermal exposure had irritation ranging from erythema to welts, which resolved after thorough soap and water decontamination.
  • (2) Those very arsonists who spread exclusion and intolerance are now projecting an image of themselves as the upright citizens.” The head of the German police trade union Rainer Wendt told Die Welt that he feared the event, which last week drew 18,000 supporters, had itself become a possible magnet for terrorists.
  • (3) In the Prussian capital, hippie culture is state policy.” 'In the Prussian capital, hippie culture is state policy' Die Welt deputy editor Ulf Poschardt The rhetoric may be overblown, but the remarkable fact is that Berlin will ultimately not further develop a hugely valuable piece of real estate, all because the people decided they didn’t trust big business not to mess up the park they loved.
  • (4) Die Welt are lucky to be part of Axel Springer, Europe's largest newspaper publisher whose portfolio also contains Bild, still the world's bestselling non-Asian newspaper and the Germany's most successful news website: pressure on Die Welt to make a profit is relatively low, so they have the luxury to experiment with new models that may later be rolled out elsewhere.
  • (5) After weeks of open criticism, Die Welt also heaped praise on the German coaching team’s tactical flexibility.
  • (6) A sk Becky Hope if she ever feels shocked by what she sees in her work in child protection – the welts on backs, broken limbs, the maggots in cots – and she seems nonplussed.
  • (7) Stark , who surprisingly quit the Board almost a year ago , wrote in Die Welt today that the ECB has been pushed to the brink of abandoning its mandate to control inflation: The political pressure on the central bank is massive... Monetary policy must not be conditional.
  • (8) Major loci affecting the difference between the fast and the slow remating speed map to the right arm of chromosome II to the right of welt (wt).
  • (9) In Paris, as their counterparts at Die Welt were planning their own pages, journalists at the offices of France Soir, an ailing tabloid based in an industrial estate in the north ofthe city, were also deciding that the cartoons should be published - for somewhat different reasons.
  • (10) When one German language school in Istanbul was forced to cancel its festivities, the daily Die Welt responded with a caricature of Erdoğan on its front page as the Grinch who stole Christmas.
  • (11) In his interview with Welt am Sonntag, Hammond also emphasised that restricting immigration would be the British government’s priority during negotiations.
  • (12) Theresa May says rise in Europeans moving to UK likely before a Brexit Read more Volker Bouffier, premier of the German state of Hesse – home to Germany’s financial capital, Frankfurt – told the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag that “quite a number of Brits” were currently applying for German citizenship.
  • (13) One principle-ist, the former parliamentary speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, recently told Die Welt, the German newspaper, that Iran needed "more national manufacturing, and a change in people's lifestyle".
  • (14) Cousin spots Beasley one-on-one with Anderson and welts the ball forward towards him.
  • (15) In the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, Henryk M Broder said of Roche: "She does what she wants without worrying what Simone de Beauvoir or Andrea Dworkin would say about it."
  • (16) I don’t think its a good idea to dilute the sporting value,” the 2014-World Cup-winning coach told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper in an interview on Sunday.
  • (17) Martin Schulz told Die Welt: “We must try to avoid this, because the consequences would be dramatic.
  • (18) But according to Die Welt, some of the leaked documents were part of the communication between the office of the chancellor, Angela Merkel, and that of the president of BND, while others contained an overview of BND locations around the world – which might hint at a more general spying strategy rather than a targeted operation.
  • (19) According to Die Welt newspaper, the staffer being investigated is a soldier who had caught the attention of the German military counter-intelligence service after establishing regular contact with people thought to be working for a US secret agency.
  • (20) But she stepped back from the company at the end of last year, telling Die Welt in an interview that “combining politics on a national, state and local level with family and the company is simply not possible.