Definitions for vesicant

vesicant ves·i·cant

Spelling: [ves-i-kuh nt]
IPA: /ˈvɛs ɪ kənt/

Vesicant is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 435 anagrams from letters in vesicant (aceinstv).

Definitions for vesicant

noun

  1. a vesicant agent or substance.
  2. (in chemical warfare) a chemical agent that causes burns and destruction of tissue both internally and externally.

adjective

  1. producing a blister or blisters, as a medicinal substance; vesicating.

Origin of vesicant

1655-65; New Latin vēsīcant- (stem of vēsīcāns), present participle of vēsīcāre to vesicate; see -ant

Examples for vesicant

The vesicant matter consists of little micaceous lamin soluble in boiling alcohol and oil, but insoluble in water.

Externally, vesicant; used in form of ointment, or tincture.

Following this, a vesicant is employed and the subject is allowed a month's rest.

It is used externally as an irritant or vesicant to the skin.

In these cases, subjects may be put into service after all swelling which the injection or the vesicant has produced has subsided.

Its vesicant properties are due to the presence of cantharidin.

Following the acute stage of such an infection, any local counter-irritating application or even a vesicant is in order.

Reduction having been affected, the application of a vesicant over the whole patellar region is customary.

Line-firing, instead of the vesicant is made use of by some, but the object desired is the same and results obtained are similar.

It has also been used as a masticatory in toothache, paralysis of the tongue, &c. On the Continent it is used as a vesicant.

Word Value for vesicant
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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