Med. [ad. mod.L. vesicatio, noun of action from vesicare: see prec. So F. vésication (16th cent.), Pg. vesicação, Sp. vejigacion. Cf. VESICULATION.]
1. The result of blistering or of rising in blisters; a blister or group of these.
1543. Traheron, Vigo’s Chirurg., II. xi. 25. This … appayseth the paine, and purgeth the vesication or bladerynge and inflation.
1676. Wiseman, Surg. Treat., I. iii. 23. I applied a Pledgit of basilicon upon it, and dressed the Vesications with unguent. tutiæ.
1720. Quincy, trans. Hodges’ Loimologia, 110. Those poisonous Vesications called Blains.
1769. E. Bancroft, Guiana, 105. These leaves are also applied to vesications, to promote a copious discharge.
1785. C. Kite, in Med. Commun., II. 47. A small vesication appeared on the navel.
1813. J. Thomson, Lect. Inflam., 595. The early opening of the vesications will … not occasion pain.
1861. Hulme, trans. Moquin-Tandon, II. IV. i. 236. The stinging apparatus of the Medusæ … may even give rise to vesications.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VIII. 466. In exceptional cases vesications are produced.
2. The formation or development of blisters; the action or fact of blistering.
1753. Phil. Trans., XLVIII. 325. An enlargement of the eyelids, and vesication of the tunica conjunctiva.
1807. Med. Jrnl., XVII. 320. A complete vesication had taken place over the whole extent of the metatarsal bones.
1843. R. J. Graves, Syst. Clin. Med., vii. 85. They have no hesitation in applying a large blister, leaving it on until it produces full vesication.
1864. Garrod, Mat. Med. (ed. 2), 335. Vesication is also made use of on account of its revulsive action in internal congestions, as of the head, &c.
