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escharotic

[¦es·kə¦räd·ik]
(medicine)
Caustic.
Producing an eschar.
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The effects seen here are due (1) to the intense irritation and escharotics action of the gas, and (2) to secondary infection, which promptly occurs." (p808) Many of the cases had gross and microscopic similarities to diphtheria.
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