What does epipastic mean?
Epipastic means (medicine, obsolete) Having the qualities of a dusting powder..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(medicine, obsolete) Having the qualities of a dusting powder..
Painting the disks of area with the epipastic fluid of the pharmacopoeia may also, occasionally, be resorted to, or the epipastic fluid may be diluted with spirits of camphor.
Courbon, experimenting physiologically upon Epicauta adspersa, denied that the hard parts exercised any epipastic action, and Leidy, speaking of Epicauta viltata, went further, and said of this species that "the vesicating principle resides in the blood an fatty matter peculiar to certain glands accessory to the generative organs andd in the eggs".
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Epipastic means (medicine, obsolete) Having the qualities of a dusting powder..
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Painting the disks of area with the epipastic fluid of the pharmacopoeia may also, occasionally, be resorted to, or the epipastic fluid may be diluted with spirits of camphor.
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