blister

From Old French blestre, from a Germanic language (Compare Middle Dutch blyster (“swelling”), Old Norse blastr (“a blowing”)).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈblɪstɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɪstə(r)

blister (plural blisters)

1. A small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease or infection.
   • Grainger

     Painful blisters swelled my tender hands.

2. A swelling on a plant.
3. (medicine) Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dunglison to this entry?)

   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I.168:

     'T is written in the Hebrew Chronicle, / How the physicians, leaving pill and potion, / Prescribed, by way of blister, a young belle, / When old King David's blood grew dull in motion, / And that the medicine answered very well […]

4. A bubble, as on a painted surface.
5. (roofing) An enclosed pocket of air, which may be mixed with water or solvent vapor, trapped between impermeable layers of felt or between the membrane and substrate.
6. A type of pre-formed packaging made from plastic that contains cavities.

   blister card

   blister pack

• bleb

• blister machine
• blister pack

blister (third-person singular simple present blisters, present participle blistering, simple past and past participle blistered)

1. (transitive) To raise blisters on.

   a chemical agent that blisters the skin

2. (intransitive) To have a blister form.
   • 1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 26:

     A poorly formulated mortar mixture will result in plaster that blisters and cracks.

   • 2004, Frank Hamer; Janet Hamer, The Potter's Dictionary of Materials and Techniques, 5th edition, London; Philadelphia, Penn.: A & C Black; University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 248:

     An overfired glaze often blisters by the volatilization of part of its composition. It also reaches a stage where its viscosity is too low to keep it on the pot.

3. (transitive) To criticise severely.
4. (intransitive) To break out in blisters.

• vesicate

• blistery
• blood blister

• Bitlers, Bristle, Liberts, bristle, reblits, riblets

Likely from English blister (“blister; blister pack”).

blister m (plural blisters, diminutive blistertje n)

1. blister
2. blister pack

• (blister): blaar, blein, blaasje
• (blister pack): doordrukstrip, blisterpak, blisterverpakking

blister m (plural blisters)

1. blister pack