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Definition of Mustard gas

1. Noun. A toxic war gas with sulfide based compounds that raises blisters and attacks the eyes and lungs; there is no known antidote.

Definition of Mustard gas

1. Noun. A vesicant gas, bis (2-chloroethyl) sulfide, (ClC₂H₄)₂S, once used in chemical warfare; one of the sulfur mustard class of compounds. ¹

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Medical Definition of Mustard gas

1. 1,1'-thiobis(2-chloroethane). Severe irritant and vesicant of skin, eyes, and lungs. It may cause blindness and lethal lung oedema and was formerly used as a war gas. The substance has been proposed as a cytostatic and for treatment of psoriasis. It has been listed as a known carcinogen in the fourth annual report on carcinogens (ntp-85-002, 1985) (merck, 11th ed). Pharmacological action: carcinogens, chemical warfare agents, dermatologic agents. Chemical name: Ethane, 1,1'-thiobis(2-chloro- (12 Dec 1998)

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Literary usage of Mustard gas

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"Of the 37 cases included in this study, 35. according to the field medical cards, were due to mustard gas, 1 to mustard gas and phosgene and 1 to phosgene ..."

2. Chemical Warfare by Amos Alfred Fries, Clarence Jay West (1921)
"The introduction of "mustard gas" (dichloro- ... But mustard gas has, in addition, a characteristic property which, combined with ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"mustard gas, a persistent though not deadly poisonous gas, first used by the Germans, ... "Duds" collected during the European War show that the mustard gas ..."

4. History of the World War by Frank Herbert Simonds (1919)
"mustard gas The Yellow Cross gas is the celebrated "mustard gas. ... mustard gas is not primarily a "killing" gas though it will do that as well if breathed ..."

5. Biological Weapons: The Threat Posed by Terrorists (2000)
"[Early cancer and related changes in the bronchia! epithelium of former mustard gas workers) Gun To Kagaku Ryoho 12, 708-13. The bronchial epithelium taken ..."

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