Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Vesicant.
- n. A vesicant.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Vesicant; epispastic: as, a vesicatory beetle.
- n. pl. vesicatories (-riz). An irritating substance applied to the skin for the purpose of causing a blister.
Wiktionary
- adj. medicine Causing blistering.
- n. medicine An agent that causes blistering.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Med.) Tending, or having power, to raise a blister.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a chemical agent that causes blistering (especially mustard gas)
- adj. causing blisters
Examples
“Vesicatorium (Blistering plaster; vesicatory plaster). 1 lb.”
“But, alas! like that of many queens, the felicity did not last long; before morning, I heard her saying to her sister, in a doleful tone, 'Soffy, will you have my vesicatory?”
“Now, there was likely to be some difficulty about getting her to submit quietly to this operation, so, after an instant's reflection, I called both her and her sister, and told them that the most diligent of the two should have a vesicatory put on her arm at night.”
“Mercurial agents alone, by their therapeutic properties or by means of the artificial bandages which they furnish by their incrustations when their vesicatory effects are exhausted, will give good results in some instances by a single application, and often by repeated applications.”
“(The Mezereum Tribe.) According to Lindley, the great feature of this tribe is the causticity of the bark, which acts upon the skin as a vesicatory, and causes excessive pain in the mouth when chewed.”
“It is said to be extremely acrid -- even small doses producing a great disturbance of the stomach; employed as a rubefacient in fevers, gout, and rheumatism, and as a vesicatory in removing corns from the feet.”
“To this question, he replied, that venesection had been three times performed; that a vesicatory had been applied inter scapulas; that the patient had taken occasionally of a cathartic apozem, and between whiles, alexipharmic boluses and neutral draughts.”
“_formic acid_ somewhat similar to the vesicatory secretion occurring within our own bodies -- but infinitely more deadly!”
“(lachrymatory, sternutatory, and, above all, vesicatory, of which yperite is the most dangerous); second, asphyxiants of which the most deadly is phosgene; third, those affecting the nervous system.”
“To this question, he replied, that venesection had been three times performed; that a vesicatory had been applied inter scapulas; that the patient had taken occasionally of a cathartic apozem, and between whiles, alexipharmic boluses and neutral draughts. — “Neutral, indeed,” said the doctor; “so neutral, that I’ll be crucified if ever they declare either for the patient or the disease.””
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Desserts of Random Palavery
Another of my Random Palavery lists, still an eclectic listing of terms that catch my eye and ear. It can't be helped. I am, (as a former partner phrased it) a word-bird.
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Just 'cause I like 'em, V
vespertine, vacuous, versipellous, valve, vatic, virogene, vigneron, vincular, verticil, vespiary, vermiculite, velamen and 128 more...
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dontcry WHY?? Jun 26, 2009
hernesheir (n): an irritating plaster or ointment designed to raise blisters on the skin.
From Tobias Smollet's 1762 satire, "The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves".
Jun 25, 2009