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Alt. of Caustical

Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.

A caustic curve or caustic surface.

Alt. of Caustical

Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.

A caustic curve or caustic surface.

Burning; hot; having the power of gradually eating away by chemical action; sarcastic.

Caustically.

1. Corrosive; exerting an effect resembling a burn; escharotic. 2. An agent producing this effect.

A burning substance used locally to destroy tissues.

Burning: severe, cutting.

A substance that burns or wastes away the flesh.

A substance that burns or corrodes.

Corroding; corrosive; sarcastic.

A caustic substance.

Burning; searing; severe; cutting; sarcastic. Caustic curve, a curve to which the rays of light, reflected or refracted by another curve, are tangents.

A substance which burns or corrodes; an escharotic.

Burning; corroding; that has power to destroy a living texture.

A substance that acts like fire when applied to a living body; nitrate of silver.

Bodies which have the property of causticity; and which, consequently, burn or disorganize animal substances. The word is also used substantively. The most active are called Escharot'ics. Caustics are also termed 'corrosives.'

Burning or escharotic.

Destructive of living tissue; corrosive.

An agent that destroys tissues by decomposing them.

n. Any substance which corrodes or destroys the texture of animal substances;—a curve which is a tangent to the reflection or refraction of another curve.