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Chemical Actions and Uses > Specialty Uses of Chemicals > Irritants
Chemical Actions and Uses > Toxic Actions > Noxae > Irritants

Preferred term

Irritants  

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Entry terms

  • Irritant

Scope note

  • 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.

History note

  • RUBEFACIENTS & VESICANTS were see under IRRITANTS 1963-79

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D007509

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