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  • adjective Having the characteristics of a blister

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Examples

  • The locals named it "the clever building" for the 100 blisterlike skylights that flood the place with daylight.

    The Barcelona Way 2008

  • These diseases are marked by the development of blisterlike sores on the skin or mucous membranes of the body.

    herpes 2002

  • Hard lumps, from which radiate welt-like swellings of the lymphatics, occur in glanders, and blisterlike eruptions occur around the mouth and pasterns in horsepox.

    Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

  • Doctors make a small hole toward the front of the eye to drain out extra fluid, which is filtered through a "bleb" a blisterlike bulge, and eventually absorbed by the blood stream.

    FOXNews.com 2011

  • Doctors make a small hole toward the front of the eye to drain out extra fluid, which is filtered through a "bleb" - a blisterlike bulge -- and eventually absorbed by the blood stream.

    Reuters: Press Release 2011

  • Wrinkle ridges are blisterlike humps that wind across the surface of almost all maria.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] InTheBeginning 2009

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