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Phagedenic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Eating or corroding flesh; as a phagedenic ulcer or medicine.

2. Phagedenic water, is made from quick lime and corrosive sublimate.

Phagedenic [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A medicine or application that eats away proud or fungous flesh.

Phagedenic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Phagedenical [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of, like, or pertaining to, phagedena; used in the treatment of phagedena; as, a phagedenic ulcer or medicine.

Phagedenical [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A phagedenic medicine.