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Webster 1913 Edition


Vesicatory

Ves′i-ca-to-ry

(?; 277)
,
Adj.
[Cf. F.
vésicatoire
.]
(Med.)
Tending, or having power, to raise a blister.
Noun.
A blistering application or plaster; a vesicant; an epispastic.

Webster 1828 Edition


Vesicatory

VES'ICATORY

,
Noun.
A blistering application or plaster; an epispastic. Vesicatories made of cantharides, are more powerful than sinapisms, or preparations of mustard.

Definition 2024


vesicatory

vesicatory

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Adjective

vesicatory (comparative more vesicatory, superlative most vesicatory)

  1. (medicine) Causing blistering.

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Noun

vesicatory (plural vesicatories)

  1. (medicine) An agent that causes blistering.

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