ectrotic

comparative more ectrotic · superlative most ectrotic

1. datedmedicineThat tends to prevent the development of something, especially a disease.

   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.

   1865, John Hughes Bennett, Clinical Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Medicine, 4th edition, Adam and Charles Black, page 963

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   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.

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

   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.