Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A blistering agent, especially mustard gas, used in chemical warfare.
- adj. Causing blisters.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Producing a bleb or blister; blistering; epispastic; vesicatory.
- n. A vesicating agent; an epispastic or vesicatory, as cantharides; a blister.
Wiktionary
- adj. Causing blistering to the skin.
- n. Any material that causes blisters upon contact with the skin.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) A vesicatory.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a chemical agent that causes blistering (especially mustard gas)
- adj. causing blisters
Examples
“Injected intravenously into rabbits and mice, the mustards made the normal white cells of the blood and bone marrow almost disappear, without producing all the nasty vesicant actions, dissociating the two pharmacological effects.”
“There had been improvements since the First World War—fleets of airplanes could “spray large areas with vesicant liquids not only on military personnel but upon the civilian population as well.””
“Somebody on this planet had a gas which was a regurgi-tant, a sternutatory, and a vesicant all in one.”
“In these cases, subjects may be put into service after all swelling which the injection or the vesicant has produced has subsided.”
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
“There is no occasion for any difference in the treatment of either of the first three classes of ringbone, but in the rachitic type where treatment is given, the application of a vesicant is all that is required.”
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
“If no marked swelling results within forty-eight hours the entire fetlock region is thoroughly vesicated and, as soon as the skin has recovered from the effects of the vesicant, pressure bandages may be employed.”
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
“Reduction having been affected, the application of a vesicant over the whole patellar region is customary.”
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
“A vesicant was applied; the mare was put to pasture and within sixty days from the date of the injury she was being driven on short trips.”
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
“Following the acute stage of such an infection, any local counter-irritating application or even a vesicant is in order.”
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
“Following this, a vesicant is employed and the subject is allowed a month's rest.”
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
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