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- noun Plural form of
vesicant .
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Examples
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When considerable cicatricial tissue is present, due to the action of depilating vesicants or other chemicals, sloughing of tissue is very apt to follow deep cauterization, if one is not careful to keep the punctures at least one-half inch apart when three are made.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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The production of a deep-seated and acute inflammation with the actual cautery is preferable to any sort of counter-irritation which may be produced by vesicants.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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The application of vesicants or line-firing is beneficial in subacute inflammation of the tendons of the carpal flexors.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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This, and the following, have also a caustic property, and are employed internally as diuretics and sudorifics in chronic rheumatism; and externally, in the treatment of eruptions, and as vesicants.
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