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Definition of Caustics
1. caustic [n] - See also: caustic
Medical Definition of Caustics
1. Strong alkaline chemicals that destroy soft body tissues resulting in a deep, penetrating type of burn, in contrast to corrosives, that result in a more superficial type of damage via chemical means or inflammation. Caustics are usually hydroxides of light metals. Sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide are the most widely used caustic agents in industry. Medically, they have been used externally to remove diseased or dead tissues and destroy warts and small tumours. The accidental ingestion of products (household and industrial) containing caustic ingredients results in thousands of injuries per year. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caustics
Literary usage of Caustics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1861)
"Nevertheless, it appears to me that the theory of caustics has been somewhat
neglected. Not but what there are many interesting researches on this subject ..."
2. Clinical Lectures on the Diseases of Women by James Young Simpson (1872)
"The t that the cicatrix left by caustics is much firmer than the c; ... The second
is, that the action of caustics is i necessity confined to the part which ..."
3. Manual of gynecology by David Berry Hart (1893)
"Third, the application of caustics alone may effect the destruction of area 2
... APPLICATION OF caustics. This should scarcely come under the head of ..."
4. The Pathology and treatment of venereal diseases: Including the Results of by Freeman Josiah Bumstead (1868)
"caustics.—caustics, at times extolled as the most efficient means of treating
stricture, and at other times decried as useless and in the highest ..."
5. A Treatise on the Diseases of the Breast and Mammary Region by Alfred Velpeau (1856)
"The question in the present day is less to ascertain whether cancers may be cured
by caustics, than whether they ought to be so treated. ..."
6. The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British edited by William Harcourt Ranking, Charles Bland Radcliffe, William Dommett Stone (1857)
"Comparison of the Mode of inserting caustics by Incisions, with other modes of
applying caustics in the treatment of Cancer. ..."
7. A Treatise on the Higher Plane Curves: Intended as a Sequel to A Treatise on by George Salmon (1879)
"As a further illustration of envelopes, we add some mention of caustics, ...
The subject has some historical interest, caustics being among the earliest ..."
8. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1858)
"Among the conservative caustics, arsenic and its compounds will find its proper
class ... Chlorides of antimony and iron, which have been used as caustics, ..."
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