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n. - (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.

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  • Synopsis: Kaz is about to lose his girlfriend Cody to a "bleb", a composite of super-intelligent household items that integrate courtesy of a prevalent computer virus.
  • The wound itself showed as a tiny scarlet spot on the sclera, a small conjunctival bleb above it.
  • It was a complication of the emphysema that caused her to pass away at severty-five (a bleb in her lung burst).
  • In many cases this swelling amounts to a bleb which may be increased by massage of or pressure upon the eyeball.
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