Definitions for vesicants

vesicants ves·i·cant

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

Vesicants is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 540 anagrams from letters in vesicants (aceinsstv).

Definitions for vesicants

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 vesicants

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

Examples for vesicants

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Word Value for vesicants
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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