1. Of or relating to a substance that burns or corrodes living tissue; caustic.
Usage: Medical/archaic term

1. A substance that burns or eats away living tissue; a caustic agent used historically in medicine.
Usage: Medical/archaic term

Examples

• The physician applied an escharotic powder to cauterize the wound.
• Escharotic substances were once common in surgical practice before modern anesthetics.
• The escharotic properties of the chemical made it useful for removing dead tissue.
• Medieval doctors relied on escharotic agents to treat infected wounds.
• The escharotic burned away the diseased skin layer.