(n) :
any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic; the envelope of reflected or refracted rays of light for a given surface or object
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(n) :
any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic; the envelope of reflected or refracted rays of light for a given surface or object