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ectylotic, a. and n. Med.|ɛktɪˈlɒtɪk| [ad. Gr. ἐκτυλωτικός, f. ἐκτυλό-ειν, recorded in sense of ‘swell out into a callus’, but here taken as meaning ‘to remove warts’, f. ἐκ out + τύλος wart.] (See quots.)
1736Bailey, Ectyloticks, remedies proper to consume and eat off callus's, warts and other excrescences found on the flesh. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. 1847Craig Ectylotic, having a tendency to remove callosities or indurations of the skin. 1864in Webster. |