ectrotic

Etymology
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Adjective

 * 1)  That tends to prevent the development of something, especially a disease.
 * 2) * 1865,, Clinical Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Medicine, , 4th edition, page 963,
 * In this case none of the symptoms were present, and there can be no doubt that the ectrotic treatment really checked the progress of suppuration and modified the disease.
 * 1) * 1887, John Milner Fothergill, The Practitioner's Handbook of Treatment, Lea Brothers & Co., 3rd edition, page 462,
 * In both sexes the ectrotic treatment of applying nitrate of silver to the inflamed surface, either in stick or in strong solution, is undesirable, being fraught with untoward results.
 * 1) * 1892, William M. Welch, Small-pox, Hobart Amory Hare, Walter Chrystie, A System of Practical Therapeutics, Volume II, Lea Brothers & Co., page 257,
 * If any ectrotic measure were reliable, how easy it would be to limit the amount of cutaneous inflammation, to lessen, if not prevent, the so-called secondary fever, and thus obviate the danger from exhaustion.