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Abstract
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.
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- Irritant
- Counterirritant
- Counterirritants
- Pustulant
- Pustulants
- Rubefacient
- Rubefacients
- Vesicant
- Vesicants
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Indexed with the subheadings administration & dosage, adverse effects, agonists, analysis, antagonists & inhibitors, blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemical synthesis, chemistry, classification, economics, history, immunology, isolation & purification, metabolism, pharmacokinetics, pharmacology, poisoning, radiation effects, standards, supply & distribution, therapeutic use, toxicity, urine.
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RUBEFACIENTS & VESICANTS were see under IRRITANTS 1963-79
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Irritants. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D007509. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D007509
- Irritants. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2142251