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What is the source of fluid that accumulates in a blister caused by?
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the plasma of the blood flowing through the numerous dermal blood vessels
The fluid in a blister is lymph. It comes from the lymph system, which is a circulatory system similar to the one that circulates blood. The flow of lymph is powered by the movement of the muscles throughout the body, and the lymph is colorless and nearly clear.
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What is a fluid filled sac on a finger?
A fluid-filled raised area on the skin of a finger (or anywhere else on the body) could be a blister. A blister can be caused by a burn or by repeated rubbing, such as blisters on the feet caused by shoes that do not fit correctly.
What is the Medical term meaning fluid accumulation caused by liver disease?
Ascites. Slowly the fluid accumulates in areas with the lowest pressure and greatest capacity.
What is Blister?
A blister is a small bubble between layers of skin which contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease or infection.
What is bilster?
Did you mean blister? A collection of fluid between the outermost 2 layers of the skin - caused by physical or chemical injury
What is the medical term meaning a circumscribed collection of clear fluid?
A blister is a circumscribed collection of clear fluid. In medical terms, a small blister is a vesicle, and a large blister is a bulla.
What is the medical meaning of blood blister?
It actually means this. small bubble on the skin.
What is a fluid filled cyst on the thumb?
a blister
Does the skin blister when short of oxygen?
A blister is a small pocket of fluid within the upper layers of the skin, typically caused by forceful rubbing (friction), burning, freezing, chemical exposure or infection. Most blisters are filled with a clear fluid called serum or plasma (aka, "blister water"). However, blisters can be filled with blood (known as blood blisters) or with pus (if they become infected)
Why is pus from a blister clear but pus from an abscess white-yellow?
Clear blister fluid is not pus. It has no infectious cells. It's basically just lymph fluid.
What is a Clear fluid blister on labia?
See your Doctor. STD Herpes or friction blister -get it checked by a clinic.
You were running on the hot streeet bare foot and got a blister because it was so hot is it a blood blister or blister?
A blister has clear fluid under the skin, and a blood blister has blood under the skin. If it's a burn, it's most likely a blister.
What impact does fluid in the abdomen have on the organs?
Fluid that accumulates in the abdomen creates abnormal pressures on organs in the abdomen.
