vesicatory
noun1
Medicine, Sciences An agent that causes blistering.
- Synonyms
- vesicant
- Related terms
- vesication
vesicatory
adj1
Medicine, Sciences Causing blistering.
- The Same Woman.—She is the same woman you have had to deal with in your professional career, dear doctor (Gleaner). Has the same begabled frame, the same hooked beak, the same thin, neutral tinted lips, the same parchmental skin, the same supra-lateral nasal mole, the same hammer dressed saw-file voice, the same fearful masculo-feminine vesicatory tout ensemble.1892, “Items of Interest”, in A[mant] H[enry] Ohmann-Dumesnil, editor, Medical Review. A Weekly Retrospect of Medicine and Surgery., volume XXV, St. Louis, Mo.: Medical Review Association, page 415, column 2:
- Synonyms
- vesicant, blistering