vesicantn.adj.
/ˈvɛsᵻk(ə)nt/, /ˈviːsᵻk(ə)nt/, /vᵻˈsʌɪk(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˈvɛsəkənt/ Medicine.
A. n.
An application employed to raise blisters; a vesicatory. Also in modern use, a vesicant substance for use in warfare.
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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
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > fire, radiation, or chemical weapons > [noun] > blistering agent
vesicant1923
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 459 Vesicants. Simple. Roots, of thapsia, and pellitory of Spaine. Seeds, of mustard.
1836 Penny Cycl. VI. 249/1 The terebinthinate solution may be used as a most efficacious vesicant.
1871 A. B. Garrod Essentials Materia Medica (new ed.) 417 The pustulants induce a still deeper action, and are sometimes of greater value than vesicants.
1923 Biochem. Jrnl. 17 275 We are trying to find what common factor..underlies the effect of the mustard gas group of vesicants.
1936 A. Huxley Olive Tree 87 To go and throw thermite, high explosives and vesicants upon the inhabitants of neighbouring countries.
1936 Current Hist. July 61/2 In Class D come the vesicants or blister gases.
1944 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 22 July 111/1 Recently B.A.L. ointment, which is a specific for arsenical vesicants and of great value in the treatment of the eyes, has been developed.
1964 S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 14) xxvi. 379 Arsenical vesicants are neutralized by the local application of BAL ointment.
1974 M. C. Gerald Pharmacol. vii. 137 Lewisite is an arsenic-containing vesicant capable of producing immediate pain.
B. adj.
Causing, efficacious in producing, blisters; vesicatory.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations for raising blisters > [adjective]
vesicatory1617
vesicating1663
vesicant1826
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xlviii. 468 There appears no particular affinity between the Predaceous and Vesicant beetles.
1857 A. Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. §531 Polygonum Hydropiper, a common native weed, is very acrid, even vesicant when fresh.
1864 A. B. Garrod Essentials Materia Medica (ed. 2) 54 It is astringent, irritant, vesicant, or even escharotic, according to the mode of its application.
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