单词 | vesicate |
释义 | vesicatev. Chiefly Medicine. 1. a. transitive. To cause to rise in a blister or blisters; to raise blisters on (the skin, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > eruption > erupt in spots, etc. [verb (transitive)] > raise blisters risea1398 blister?1541 beblister1575 vesicate1658 embladder1662 1658 G. Starkey Natures Explic. 173 He will perhaps apply pigeons or the like to the feet or vesicate the external members for revulsion sake. 1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. vi. viii. 435 Celsus proposes, that..the externall Parts be vesicated, to make more powerfull Revulsion from within. 1720 J. Quincy tr. N. Hodges Loimologia vii. 189 The Parts thus vesicated were never suffered to heal, till the Malignity of the Disease was spent. 1754 Philos. Trans. 1753 (Royal Soc.) 48 149 If..this bark is stripped off with their teeth, it inflames and vesicates their lips and gums. b. In past participle. Covered with, converted into, blisters. ΚΠ 1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. i. vi. 38 I saw [the arm] swelled, the Cuticula vesicated, and shining with a burning heat of a citron colour. 1802 Jenner Instr. Vaccine Inoculation (1884) 59 A little red spot will appear on the third day..which..becomes perceptibly vesicated. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 482 Outbursts of persistent wheal-like formations, sometimes vesicated. 2. absol. To produce blisters. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > eruption > erupt [verb (intransitive)] > in blisters > produce blisters vesicate1809 1809 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 99 343 The fluid effused by vesicating with cantharides. 1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (ed. 2) I. 315 In America the Lytta cinerea and vittata..are said to vesicate more speedily and with less pain. 1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xii. 133 Blisters [applied] would be doubtful, and the probability was that the patient would sink before they vesicated. 1864 A. B. Garrod Essentials Materia Medica (ed. 2) 41 Liquor ammoniæ fortior..will vesicate rapidly, if evaporation is prevented. 3. intransitive. To become blistered. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > eruption > erupt [verb (intransitive)] > in blisters blister1496 vesicate1899 1899 J. Hutchinson's Arch. Surg. X. 120 It [i.e. an eruption] consists of erythematous patches which vesicate at their borders and spread. Derivatives ˈvesicated adj. In quot. 1703 apparently meaning ‘having large air-cells’: cf. vesiculated adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > eruption > [adjective] > blister blistered1563 vesicated1703 vesicular1818 bullous1833 phlyctenous1834 phlyctenoid1842 phlyctenular1843 pompholygous1855 vesiculateda1858 papulovesicular1875 vesicopustular1902 vesiculo-pustular1911 vesiculo-bullous1923 1703 Philos. Trans. 1702–3 (Royal Soc.) 23 1393 The Lungs of these Water Lizards being vesicated, and not vesiculated. 1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 44 Blistering plasters were applied, and the vesicated parts treated as above. 1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. ix. 102 (note) Dressing the vesicated surface with the French blistering paper. ˈvesicating n. (also attributive) and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations for raising blisters > [adjective] vesicatory1617 vesicating1663 vesicant1826 1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. ii. 61 The Chirurgion, unknown to me, made use of Cantharides, among other ingredients of his vesicating plaister. 1771 T. Percival Ess. Med. & Exper. (1777) I. 196 Neither mustard,..nor any other vesicating stimulus but cantharides, excite this complaint. 1836 Penny Cycl. VI. 249/1 A yellow viscid matter..which has no vesicating power. 1872 T. G. Thomas Pract. Treat. Dis. Women (ed. 3) 297 There are two preparations of vesicating collodion. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1658 |
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