vesicant

IPA: vˈɛzɪkʌnt

Examples of "vesicant" in Sentences

Somebody on this planet had a gas which was a regurgi-tant, a sternutatory, and a vesicant all in one.
Reduction having been affected, the application of a vesicant over the whole patellar region is customary.
In these cases, subjects may be put into service after all swelling which the injection or the vesicant has produced has subsided.
A vesicant was applied; the mare was put to pasture and within sixty days from the date of the injury she was being driven on short trips.
There had been improvements since the First World War—fleets of airplanes could “spray large areas with vesicant liquids not only on military personnel but upon the civilian population as well.”
If no marked swelling results within forty-eight hours the entire fetlock region is thoroughly vesicated and, as soon as the skin has recovered from the effects of the vesicant, pressure bandages may be employed.
There is no occasion for any difference in the treatment of either of the first three classes of ringbone, but in the rachitic type where treatment is given, the application of a vesicant is all that is required.
Injected intravenously into rabbits and mice, the mustards made the normal white cells of the blood and bone marrow almost disappear, without producing all the nasty vesicant actions, dissociating the two pharmacological effects.