Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In medicine, producing a blister when applied to the skin.
- noun An application to the skin which produces a serous or puriform discharge by exciting inflammation; a vesicatory; a blister.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) An external application to the skin, which produces a puriform or serous discharge by exciting inflammation; a vesicatory.
- adjective (Med.) Attracting the humors to the skin; exciting action in the skin; blistering.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective medicine Causing
blisters ;vesicant . - noun dated a vesicant agent
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Examples
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"epispastic" of the English Pharmacopoeia, causes less pain and rapidly raises a good blister, facts of which I have convinced myself by the use of a small quantity sent me from Bombay in 1891.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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Dr. Tully also says it is a deobstruent or alterative, an acrid narcotic, an emetic, an epispastic, and an errhine; found very useful in gout, rheumatism, diseases of lungs, and some complaints of the bowels.
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This has also a rubefacient and epispastic operation.
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To this epispastic operation performed on the athletes to conceal the marks of circumcision St. Paul alludes, me epispastho (I
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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