vesicate
/ˈvɛsɪkeɪt
/ /ˈviːsɪkeɪt/verb chiefly Medicine
Blister or cause to blister.The plant reddens and vesicates healthy skin and has been used as a counter-irritant....
- The patient should remain perfectly quiet during the time it is on, lest any motion should bring the blister against the scrotum, and vesicate it.
- Both the root in substance, and the juice, have a disagreeable smell, and a nauseous, bitter biting taste: applied for some time to the skin, they inflame or even vesicate the part.
Derivatives
vesication
- The application is to be renewed night and morning, until vesication is produced.
- With the uniquely designed detector and six vesication-removing methods, the system can adjust the number of vesications to be removed according to the actual conditions of each patient.
- Rapid vesication and angry-looking skin are characteristics.
vesicatory
- Further structural details were not elucidated because ‘the vesicatory characteristics of the oil… precluded further study’.
- A few species with acrid juice were formerly used as vesicatories.
- Should her condition continue, by the end of the week, her appearance would be so bad, it would be impossible to dream of doing this; especially if Dr. Corniere prescribes vesicatories.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from late Latin vesicat- 'having pustules', from vesica 'bladder'.
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