Having the quality of eating away or destroying organic tissue. Medicine. Said of medicinal agents or preparations: Caustic, escharotic.

That adusts (adust, v.2) or has been adusted; characterized by adustion; burning, scorching. Also figurative.

Medicine and Surgery. Of a medicine: that destroys tissue; caustic. Obsolete.

Burning, corrosive, destructive of organic tissue.

Caustic.

Corroding, corrosive.

Fitted or tending to form an eschar, caustic.

Having power to destroy, reduce or consume; corrosive. As n.: An agent for consuming superfluous flesh: a name given to the milder caustics.

= caustic, adj. 1a.

= main sense.

Of the nature of quick-lime; caustic.

Of caustic nature or operation.

Used for the treatment of phagedaena; spec. designating any of several caustic solutions containing calcium hydroxide or oxide. Obsolete.

= phagedaenic, adj. 2.

Corrosive.