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Absorption by the skin is most vigorous when the cuticle is removed by vesication, or blistering.

From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Cutter, Calvin

Firing usually causes prompt recovery from lameness and is a dependable manner of treating such cases but there remains more blemish following cauterization than where vesication is done.

From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor

The cuticular layer of the skin in slightly inflamed, and vesication with exudation occurs, followed by the formation of scaly, brittle crusts.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

Transition from the reproductive to the creative imagination.—Do all representations contain motor elements?—Unusual effects produced by images: vesication, stigmata; their conditions; their meaning for our subject.—The imagination is, on the intellectual side, equivalent to will.

From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen

Firing and vesication have not been productive of beneficial results.

From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor