NOUN
- a chemical agent that causes blistering (especially mustard gas)
ADJECTIVE
- causing blisters
How To Use vesicant In A Sentence
- Blister agents (vesicants) produce blisters all over your body.
- Chemical agents appear in several types: choking agents that damage lung tissue, blood agents that cause vital organs to shut down, blister agents (also known as vesicants) that damage the skin, and - most lethal - nerve agents.
- It should be further stated that this chemical known as Sanger's reagent is highly toxic, it is also a vesicant and cancer suspect agent, proper handling procedure should be strictly followed.
- Somebody on this planet had a gas which was a regurgi-tant, a sternutatory, and a vesicant all in one. Cities In Flight
- Therapeutically it is used externally in leprosy, old ulcers and to destroy corns, but on account of its rubefacient and vesicant qualities it is necessary to use it cautiously. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
- New agents, notably phosgene (an asphyxiating agent) and mustard (a blister agent called a vesicant), had been developed and used.
- This paper discussed apply of modified fly ash vesicant concrete by way of the biologic padding of contact oxidation in sewage transaction.
- Spanish Fly refers to beautiful, iridescent green insects, Cantharis vesicatoria, which contain cantharidin, which is both a vesicant (causes blisters) and a diuretic.
- Special vesicant joint technology is adopted. Joint sections are filled well and reliable, able to endure shocking, and structure is firm.
- When considerable cicatricial tissue is present, due to the action of depilating vesicants or other chemicals, sloughing of tissue is very apt to follow deep cauterization, if one is not careful to keep the punctures at least one-half inch apart when three are made. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1