Irritants
"Irritants" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
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.
| Descriptor ID |
D007509
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D27.720.400 D27.720.821.498 D27.888.569.300 D27.888.569.734.498
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Irritants" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.