Irritants
Drugs that act locally on cutaneous or mucosal surfaces to produce inflammation; those that cause redness due to hyperemia are rubefacients; those that raise blisters are vesicants and those that penetrate sebaceous glands and cause abscesses are pustulants; tear gases and mustard gases are also irritants.
Year introduced: RUBEFACIENTS & VESICANTS were see under IRRITANTS 1963-1979
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Tree Number(s): D27.720.400, D27.888.569.300
MeSH Unique ID: D007509
Entry Terms:
- Irritant
- Vesicants
- Vesicant
- Counterirritants
- Counterirritant
- Rubefacients
- Rubefacient
- Pustulants
- Pustulant