单词 | pustulant |
释义 | pustulantn.adj. A. n. Medicine. A substance that causes the formation of pustules. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations for raising blisters > [noun] blister?1541 vesicatory1604 vesicant1661 epispastic1682 epipastic1710 pustulant1861 1861 L. M. Lawson Pract. Treat. Phthisis Pulmonalis iv. 504 Dry cups, sinapisms, blisters, and, finally, pustulants, may be brought into requisition. 1871 A. B. Garrod Essentials Materia Medica (new ed.) 417 The pustulants induce deeper action, and are sometimes of greater value than vesicants. 1901 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. (rev. ed.) III. 305/1 On account of the severe effect which they produce, pustulants should not be extensively applied. B. adj. Originally: causing the formation of pustules (now rare). Later: affected with pustules; pustular. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [adjective] > abscess > boil > pustule pustulate?a1425 pustuled?a1425 whey-wormeda1529 pustulous1543 pustulent1607 pustulated1666 pustular1716 whelky1822 psydracious1829 phlyzacious1830 papulopustular1843 pustuliform1846 pustulant1895 1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. at Pustule Pustulant, causing pustules. 1911 J. Law Textbk. Vet. Med. (ed. 3) III. 472 Irritant agents of all kinds, even if caustic or pustulant in concentrated forms, may be so diluted as to cause simple erythema. 1974 R. Adams Shardik xlix. 397 Above the ankles..the cracked weals left by the removed shackles were pustulant with sores. 1993 Guardian 18 Dec. (Weekend Suppl.) 59/2 A weight gain of 12 stone, an outbreak of pustulant skin and an early, lonely, unloved death. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1861 |
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