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
- : producing a blister or blisters, as a medicinal substance; vesicating.
n.名词 noun
- 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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