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Webster 1828 Edition

Adj.

[Gr. to eat.] Eating or corroding flesh; as a phagedenic ulcer or medicine.

Phagedenic water, is made from quick lime and corrosive sublimate.

Noun.

A medicine or application that eats away proud or fungous flesh.

phagedenic ‎(comparative more phagedenic, superlative most phagedenic)