vesicant
producing a blister or blisters, as a medicinal substance; vesicating.
a vesicant agent or substance.
(in chemical warfare) a chemical agent that causes burns and destruction of tissue both internally and externally.
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How to use vesicant in a sentence
Following this, a vesicant is employed and the subject is allowed a month's rest.
Lameness of the Horse | John Victor LacroixFollowing the acute stage of such an infection, any local counter-irritating application or even a vesicant is in order.
Lameness of the Horse | John Victor LacroixLine-firing, instead of the vesicant is made use of by some, but the object desired is the same and results obtained are similar.
Lameness of the Horse | John Victor LacroixIn these cases, subjects may be put into service after all swelling which the injection or the vesicant has produced has subsided.
Lameness of the Horse | John Victor LacroixReduction having been affected, the application of a vesicant over the whole patellar region is customary.
Lameness of the Horse | John Victor Lacroix
British Dictionary definitions for vesicant
vesicatory (ˈvɛsɪˌkeɪtərɪ)
/ (ˈvɛsɪkənt) /
any substance that causes blisters, used in medicine and in chemical warfare
acting as a vesicant
Origin of vesicant
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