CAUSTIC
\kˈɔːstɪk], \kˈɔːstɪk], \k_ˈɔː_s_t_ɪ_k]\
Definitions of CAUSTIC
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Alt. of Caustical
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Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.
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A caustic curve or caustic surface.
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Alt. of Caustical
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Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.
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A caustic curve or caustic surface.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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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.'
By Robley Dunglison
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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