escharotic

[ es-kuh-rot-ik ]

adjective

1. producing an eschar, as a medicinal substance; caustic.

noun

1. an escharotic agent.

escharotic

/ ˌɛskəˈrɒtɪk /

adjective

1. capable of producing an eschar

noun

1. a caustic or corrosive agent

Word History and Origins

Origin of escharotic¹

1605–15; < Late Latin escharōticus < Greek escharōtikós. See eschar, -otic

Example Sentences

While smiling and applauding, patting her large strong hands, freshly gloved in virgin white, at precisely the right moment, as the sound and escharotic speaker laid down the Woman's Law, she permitted herself to wonder if the idea had not burrowed in her subconscious mind—that mental antiquity shop of which she had lately read so much, that she might expound it to the progressive ladies of the Friday Club—for at least half the twenty-two years of her married life.

From Project Gutenberg

The more modern practice is to heat a piece of rusty hoop iron red hot and to rub a cut lemon on it, and then to apply the rust-stained juice as a mild escharotic.

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Francis of Assisi is, in addition, depicted with stigmata, or marks on his hands, feet, and side, which, though they resemble those made with nails in the case of Jesus of Nazareth, were doubtless, in the case of the "saint," made with the strong caustic called "spirit of salt" or other escharotic.

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It is used in our practice as an escharotic.

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Women read of a mother killing her child in some awful way or perhaps accidentally poisoning it or burning it badly with some escharotic external application.

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