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EnglishTHE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

vesicant

/ves-i-kuhnt/US // ˈvɛs ɪ kənt //UK // (ˈvɛsɪkənt) //

泡腾剂,囊泡剂,泡腾液,囊肿

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : producing a blister or blisters, as a medicinal substance; vesicating.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a vesicant agent or substance.
    • : a chemical agent that causes burns and destruction of tissue both internally and externally.

Examples

  • Following this, a vesicant is employed and the subject is allowed a month's rest.

  • Following the acute stage of such an infection, any local counter-irritating application or even a vesicant is in order.

  • Line-firing, instead of the vesicant is made use of by some, but the object desired is the same and results obtained are similar.

  • In these cases, subjects may be put into service after all swelling which the injection or the vesicant has produced has subsided.

  • Reduction having been affected, the application of a vesicant over the whole patellar region is customary.

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