vesicant

Borrowed from Late Latin vēsīcāns, present participle of vēsīcō.

vesicant (comparative more vesicant, superlative most vesicant)

1. Causing blistering to the skin.

vesicant (plural vesicants)

1. Any material that causes blisters upon contact with the skin.
   • 1939, Philip George Chadwick, The Death Guard, page 190:

     Rubber-clothed figures entered from an inner room like divers in air. Some of the vesicant-proof suits did not fit and the wearers moved uncomfortably and clumsily.

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