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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective marred by small bubbles or small particles of foreign material; -- of glass or quartzite.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of bleb.

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  • adjective (of glass or quartzite) marred by small bubbles or small particles of foreign material

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  • MicroRNAs, small RNA molecules that regulate gene expression, have been found to circulate in blood within lipid membrane-encased particles (exosomes) that are secreted from and blebbed off of cancer cells.

    unknown title 2009

  • MicroRNAs, small RNA molecules that regulate gene expression, have been found to circulate in blood within lipid membrane-encased particles (exosomes) that are secreted from and blebbed off of cancer cells.

    unknown title 2009

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