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See also:BLISTER (a word found in many forms in See also:Teutonic See also:languages, cf. Ger. Blase; it is ultimately connected with the same See also:root as in " See also:blow," cf. " See also:bladder ") , a small vesicle filled with serous fluid raised on the skin by a See also:burn, by rubbing on a hard See also:surface, as on the See also:hand in See also:rowing, or by other injury; the See also:term is also used of a similar See also:condition of the skin caused artificially, as a See also:counter-irritant in cases of inflammation, by the application of See also:mustard, of various kinds of See also:fly (see See also:CANTHARIDES) and of other vesicatories . |
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