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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Vesicant.
- noun A vesicant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Vesicant; epispastic: as, a vesicatory beetle.
- noun pl. vesicatories (-riz). An irritating substance applied to the skin for the purpose of causing a blister.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Tending, or having power, to raise a blister.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective medicine Causing
blistering . - noun medicine An agent that causes
blistering .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a chemical agent that causes blistering (especially mustard gas)
- adjective causing blisters
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Examples
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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?'
Willis the Pilot Paul Adrien
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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.
Willis the Pilot Paul Adrien
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Vesicatorium (Blistering plaster; vesicatory plaster). 1 lb.
Drug Supplies in the American Revolution George B. Griffenhagen
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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.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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(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.
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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.
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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.
The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves Tobias George Smollett 1746
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_formic acid_ somewhat similar to the vesicatory secretion occurring within our own bodies -- but infinitely more deadly!
Walls of Acid Henry Hasse 1945
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(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.
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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.”
hernesheir commented on the word vesicatory
(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".
June 26, 2009
dontcry commented on the word vesicatory
WHY??
June 26, 2009