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Definition of Irritants
1. irritant [n] - See also: irritant
Medical Definition of Irritants
1. Drugs that act locally on cutaneous or mucosal surfaces to produce inflammation; those that cause redness due to hyperaemia are rubefacients; those that raise blisters are vesicants and those that penetrate sebaceous glands and cause abscesses are pustulants; tear gases and mustard gases are also irritants. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Irritants
Literary usage of Irritants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On Poisons, in Relation to Medical Jurisprudence and Medicine by Alfred Swaine Taylor, Robert Eglesfeld Griffith (1848)
"The true vegetable irritants, soon after they are swallowed, produce severe pain
in the abdomen, accompanied by vomiting and diarrhoea. ..."
2. Handbook of Therapy by Oliver Thomas Osborne, Morris Fishbein (1920)
"irritants of the Central Nervous System. Atropin-containing drugs. ... The action
of astringents and irritants on mucous membranes is, therefore, ..."
3. A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor (1897)
"VEGETABLE AND OTHER irritants. CHAPTER XV. VEGETABLE irritants.—ALOES. ...
ANIMAL irritants I CANTHARIDES.—NOXIOUS ANIMAL FOOD. FISH. MUSSELS. CHEESE. ..."
4. Medical Jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor (1856)
"GENERAL REMARKS ON VEGETABLE irritants. VEGETABLE irritants. ... Our knowledge
of the symptoms and post-mortem appearances produced by these irritants, is, ..."
5. Nursing: Its Principles and Practice: For Hospital and Private Use by Isabel Hampton Robb (1906)
"Counter-irritants are therapeutic agents applied externally to produce a condition of
... By the use of counter-irritants we may produce at will: (i) Mild ..."
6. Therapeutics by Horatio Charles Wood (1900)
"COUNTER-irritants. Counter-irritation.—Almost from time immemorial physicians
... Our present explanations of the way in which counter-irritants act are ..."
7. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"The poison, like other fat-soluble irritants, is more injurious when the skin is
... Other Skin irritants.—Hanzlik et al, 1919, give a survey of the results ..."
8. On Poisons, in Relation to Medical Jurisprudence and Medicine by Alfred Swaine Taylor, Robert Eglesfeld Griffith (1848)
"The true vegetable irritants, soon after they are swallowed, produce severe pain
in the abdomen, accompanied by vomiting and diarrhoea. ..."
9. Handbook of Therapy by Oliver Thomas Osborne, Morris Fishbein (1920)
"irritants of the Central Nervous System. Atropin-containing drugs. ... The action
of astringents and irritants on mucous membranes is, therefore, ..."
10. A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor (1897)
"VEGETABLE AND OTHER irritants. CHAPTER XV. VEGETABLE irritants.—ALOES. ...
ANIMAL irritants I CANTHARIDES.—NOXIOUS ANIMAL FOOD. FISH. MUSSELS. CHEESE. ..."
11. Medical Jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor (1856)
"GENERAL REMARKS ON VEGETABLE irritants. VEGETABLE irritants. ... Our knowledge
of the symptoms and post-mortem appearances produced by these irritants, is, ..."
12. Nursing: Its Principles and Practice: For Hospital and Private Use by Isabel Hampton Robb (1906)
"Counter-irritants are therapeutic agents applied externally to produce a condition of
... By the use of counter-irritants we may produce at will: (i) Mild ..."
13. Therapeutics by Horatio Charles Wood (1900)
"COUNTER-irritants. Counter-irritation.—Almost from time immemorial physicians
... Our present explanations of the way in which counter-irritants act are ..."
14. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"The poison, like other fat-soluble irritants, is more injurious when the skin is
... Other Skin irritants.—Hanzlik et al, 1919, give a survey of the results ..."
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