blood blister
- noun
- /blʌd ˈblɪstər/
- A blood blister formed on my heel after I wore the new shoes all day.
Examples
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And if Drione gives you blood blisters, I think that's a good sign that it may be hazardous to humans ...
Blog text (3) -
James squints as he tries to focus on a huge blood blister, pumped up by the man's dying circulation, which has a distinct triton shape.
Fiction book (1996) -
The straight stuff would raise a blood blister on boot leather.
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There's blood blisters on my hands!
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Her left leg from ankle to knee would be one gigantic blood blister.
Fiction book (1999) -
I got a couple of big blood blisters on my lip from accidentally inhaling Drione that I had put down a couple of weeks before I encountered it.
Blog text (3) -
I have like a like a blood blister on the bottom of my foot that I got from my feet pinching in my flip flops and it's so rude anyway lol.
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First noticed by the patient in mid-December as a hard blood blister, the lesion grew rapidly and, when it was excised in early February, it measured 25 mm x 23 mm.
Academic text (2015) -
When you pinch your skin too hard, it might create a painful blood blister filled with fluid.
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He accidentally hit his hand against the table, causing a blood blister to appear.
Synonyms
A raised bump filled with fluid on the skin or a surface
A swelling of blood under the skin after an injury that feels like a lump
How Large
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a blister filled with blood' is directly and transparently composed from 'blood' (the red fluid) modifying 'blister' (a fluid-filled bubble on the skin). This simple noun–modifier compound follows a common cross-linguistic pattern with no idiomatic shift, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can reliably infer the meaning.
Etymology
Blood blister is the name for a small raised bump where blister means a little bubble on the skin and blood tells you that the bubble is filled with blood after a pinch or hard rub. So, the name means 'a blister filled with blood' and helps you remember it is often painful.