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epispastic

epispastic adjective: causing blisters; vesicant.

Adjective

epispastic (comparative more epispastic, superlative most epispastic)

  1. (archaic) Causing blisters; vesicant.
    • Old Postle says this: "Cantharides when used internally are diuretic and stimulant; when applied externally they are epispastic and rubefacient." Now what the devil can he mean, eh?1960, Lawrence Durrell, Clea

Noun

epispastic (plural epispastics)

  1. (dated) A vesicant agent; that which causes blisters.
  2. (dated) A blister.

epispastic meaning in Tamil

epispastic in Tamil

கொப்பளமூட்டி, கொப்புளம் ஊக்கி

Forms of epispastic

Adjective
comparativemore epispastic
superlativemost epispastic
alternative formepispastick
Noun
pluralepispastics

Words that rhyme with epispastic

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Questions about epispastic

What does epispastic mean?
Epispastic means causing blisters; vesicant.
What is epispastic in Tamil?
Epispastic in Tamil is கொப்பளமூட்டி, கொப்புளம் ஊக்கி. See Epispastic meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is epispastic?
Epispastic can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near epispastic in the dictionary

  1. epispadiac
  2. epispadiacs
  3. epispadias
  4. epispadiases
  5. epispasm
  6. epispastic
  7. epispastick
  8. epispasticks
  9. epispastics
  10. episperm
  11. epispermic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: epispastic (page history and authors); epispastic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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