escharotic

American  

[es-kuh-rot-ik] / ˌɛs kəˈrɒt ɪk /

adjective

1. producing an eschar, as a medicinal substance; caustic.

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noun

1. an escharotic agent.

escharotic British  

/ ˌɛskəˈrɒtɪk /

adjective

1. capable of producing an eschar

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noun

1. a caustic or corrosive agent

Etymology

Origin of escharotic

1605–15; < Late Latin escharōticus < Greek escharōtikós. See eschar, -otic

Example Sentences

While smiling and applauding, patting her large strong hands, freshly gloved in virgin white, at precisely the right moment, as the sound and escharotic speaker laid down the Woman's Law, she permitted herself to wonder if the idea had not burrowed in her subconscious mind—that mental antiquity shop of which she had lately read so much, that she might expound it to the progressive ladies of the Friday Club—for at least half the twenty-two years of her married life.

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The more modern practice is to heat a piece of rusty hoop iron red hot and to rub a cut lemon on it, and then to apply the rust-stained juice as a mild escharotic.

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It is used in our practice as an escharotic.

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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.

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Prophylaxis.—The bite of an animal suspected of being rabid should be cauterised at once by means of the actual or Paquelin cautery, or by a strong chemical escharotic such as pure carbolic acid, after which antiseptic dressings are applied.

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