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.
Entry Term(s)
Counterirritant
Counterirritants
Irritant
Pustulant
Pustulants
Rubefacient
Rubefacients
Vesicant
Vesicants
Registry Numbers
0
Online Note
use IRRITANTS to search RUBEFACIENTS & VESICANTS 1966-79
History Note
RUBEFACIENTS & VESICANTS were see under IRRITANTS 1963-79
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.
