ectrotic

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἔκτρωσις (éktrōsis, “abortion”).

Adjective

ectrotic (comparative more ectrotic, superlative most ectrotic)

1. (medicine, dated) That tends to prevent the development of something, especially a disease.
   • 1865, John Hughes Bennett, Clinical Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Medicine, Adam and Charles Black, 4th edition, page 963,

     In this case none of the symptoms were present, and there can be no doubt that the ectrotic treatment really checked the progress of suppuration and modified the disease.

   • 1887, John Milner Fothergill, The Practitioner's Handbook of Treatment, Lea Brothers & Co., 3rd edition, page 462,

     In both sexes the ectrotic treatment of applying nitrate of silver to the inflamed surface, either in stick or in strong solution, is undesirable, being fraught with untoward results.

   • 1892, William M. Welch, Small-pox, Hobart Amory Hare, Walter Chrystie, A System of Practical Therapeutics, Volume II, Lea Brothers & Co., page 257,

     If any ectrotic measure were reliable, how easy it would be to limit the amount of cutaneous inflammation, to lessen, if not prevent, the so-called secondary fever, and thus obviate the danger from exhaustion.