Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Producing an eschar.
- n. A caustic or corrosive substance or drug.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Caustic; having the power of searing or destroying the flesh.
- n. A caustic application; an application which sears or destroys flesh.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Med.) Serving or tending to form an eschar; producing a scar; caustic.
- n. (Med.) A substance which produces an eschar; a caustic, esp., a mild caustic.
Examples
“Consecutive case study research of carcinoma in situ of cervix employing local escharotic treatment combined with nutritional therapy.”
“Indeed, in this neighbourhood it commonly receives an early check from escharotic applications of the COW LEECH.”
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
“Indeed, in this neighbourhood it commonly receives an early check from escharotic applications of the cow leech.”
II. Further Observations on the Variolae Vaccinae, or Cow-Pox. 1799
“If the frostbite is of a vesicular, pustular, bullous, or escharotic character, the treatment consists in the application of soothing remedies, such as are employed in other like inflammatory conditions.”
“It is usually necessary to treat the point from which the tumor is taken by means of the galvanic cautery, chromic acid, or some other escharotic.”
Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life.
“The powdered root, snuffed up the nose, is powerfully sternutatory; it is applied as an escharotic to fungous flesh; and several polypi, of the soft kind, were cured by it in the hands of Dr. Smith, of Hanover.”
“In a communication from Dr. Douglass, of Chester district, S. C., his correspondent, Mr. McKeown, considers the root too drastic as a purge; he adds that the powdered root, mixed with equal parts of resin, acts as a powerful caustic, and is used by farriers for escharotic purposes.”
“It is also said to act as an escharotic -- keeping down fungus flesh, and preventing mortification.”
“Eberle, in his work on Diseases of Children, p. 97, says that the powdered root is an excellent escharotic in ulceration of the umbilicus.”
“The powdered root has been employed as an escharotic, for restraining the growth of fungous flesh in ulcers.”
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