ectrotic

Definitions

That tends to prevent the development of something, especially a disease.

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Examples

“In this case none of the symptoms were present⟳, and there can be no doubt⟳ that the ectrotic treatment really checked the progress⟳ of suppuration and modified the disease.”

“In both sexes the ectrotic treatment of applying nitrate of silver to the inflamed surface, either in stick⟳ or in strong solution, is undesirable, being fraught with untoward results.”

“1892, William M. Welch, Small-pox, Hobart Amory Hare, Walter Chrystie, A System of Practical Therapeutics, Volume II, Lea Brothers & Co., page 257, If any ectrotic measure⟳ were reliable, how easy it would be to limit⟳ the amount of cutaneous inflammation, to lessen⟳, if not prevent⟳, the so-called secondary fever, and thus obviate the danger from exhaustion.”

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