Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Producing an eschar.
- noun A caustic or corrosive substance or drug.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Caustic; having the power of searing or destroying the flesh.
- noun A caustic application; an application which sears or destroys flesh.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Serving or tending to form an eschar; producing a scar; caustic.
- noun (Med.) A substance which produces an eschar; a caustic, esp., a mild caustic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of producing an
eschar - noun A
caustic orcorrosive material
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Examples
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Indeed, in this neighbourhood it commonly receives an early check from escharotic applications of the cow leech.
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Indeed, in this neighbourhood it commonly receives an early check from escharotic applications of the cow leech.
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Consecutive case study research of carcinoma in situ of cervix employing local escharotic treatment combined with nutritional therapy.
The Best Alternative Medicine Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier 2000
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Consecutive case study research of carcinoma in situ of cervix employing local escharotic treatment combined with nutritional therapy.
The Best Alternative Medicine Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier 2000
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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) Various
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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 1909
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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.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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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. 1877
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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.
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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.
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