Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The formation of blisters; a blister.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) The process of vesicating, or of raising blisters.
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- noun The formation of
vesicles ;blistering .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the formation of vesicles in or beneath the skin
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Examples
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On the arm of a person who had gone through the cow-pox many years before I once produced a vesication by the insertion of variolous matter, and, with a little of the fluid, inoculated a young woman who had a mild, but very efficacious, smallpox in consequence, although no constitutional effect was produced on the patient from whom the matter was taken.
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On the arm of a person who had gone through the cow-pox many years before I once produced a vesication by the insertion of variolous matter, and, with a little of the fluid, inoculated a young woman who had a mild, but very efficacious, smallpox in consequence, although no constitutional effect was produced on the patient from whom the matter was taken.
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On the arm of a person who had gone through the cow-pox many years before I once produced a vesication by the insertion of variolous matter, and, with a little of the fluid, inoculated a young woman who had a mild, but very efficacious, smallpox in consequence, although no constitutional effect was produced on the patient from whom the matter was taken.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various
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I simply evacuated the fluid of the vesication and left the part exposed to dry.
An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers John Higginbottom
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Firing is of no practical benefit in these cases, and it is doubtful if vesication is helpful excepting where only a part of the cartilage is ossified.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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There was a little vesication round one of the wounds.
An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers John Higginbottom
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In cases of recent wounds unattended by inflammation, it may be applied freely; but when inflammation has come on, too severe an application of the caustic induces vesication of the surrounding skin, and the edges of the eschar may in this manner also be loosened and removed.
An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers John Higginbottom
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When the previous inflammation round the ulcer is considerable, however, the application of the caustic would induce vesication, and it should in such a case of course be avoided, and another mode of treatment to be described hereafter must be adopted.
An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers John Higginbottom
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The application of the lunar caustic in recent burns or scalds, has always appeared to me to increase the inflammation and vesication, even inducing blisters where there were none before.
An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers John Higginbottom
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In the neglected and severer cases of bruise attended by much inflammation, it will be found best to treat the part for a day or two by a cold poultice to give time for the inflammation to subside; otherwise the caustic might induce vesication of the skin, as I have mentioned already, p. 5, and the eschar could not be adherent.
An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers John Higginbottom
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