vesicatory

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adjective

Causing blistering.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

adjectivevesicatory (not comparable)
  1. not comparablemedicineCausing blistering.
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    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.

    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

    Synonyms: blistering

nounvesicatory (plural vesicatories)

plural vesicatories

  1. medicineAn agent that causes blistering.

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveCausing blistering.

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More synonyms by meaning

adjectivecausing blisters

nouna chemical agent that causes blistering (especially mustard gas)

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