vesicatory
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]vesicatory (comparative more vesicatory, superlative most vesicatory)
- (medicine) Causing blistering.
- 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:
- 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.
Synonyms
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[edit]causing blistering
Noun
[edit]vesicatory (plural vesicatories)
- (medicine) An agent that causes blistering.
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]agent that causes blistering