Ectrotic

Quick meaning: Ectrotic is an adjective meaning (medicine, dated) That tends to prevent the development of something, especially a disease.

Meaning

(medicine, dated) That tends to prevent the development of something, especially a disease.

Example Sentences

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.

Related Words

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