Substance that acts locally on cutaneous or mucosal surfaces to produce inflammation.
Something that causes irritation and annoyance.
Синонимы
Examples for "thorn "
Examples for "thorn "
1 A niggardly purse in the pocket becomes a thorn in the side.
2 For he recognized the hollow in the chalk-thegnarled thorn - the wide outlook.
3 She's told me often enough: I am a thorn in her side.
4 The Schongauers' transport monopoly had long been a thorn in their side.
5 Cael had been a thorn in Judah's side for far too long.
1 But violence from organized crime remains an irritant in the bilateral relationship.
2 The early messing about 'fiscal space' was an irritant , and largely self-inflicted.
3 Nitrogen dioxide is an irritant gas, emitted from diesel vehicles in particular.
4 Excess levels of the irritant methanol were found instead, Mr McConalogue said.
5 First, diarrhea is your body's way of ridding itself of an irritant .
6 Allergic and irritant contact dermatitis are similar clinically, histologically and on immunohistochemistry.
7 The direct cause of inflammation is usually an irritant of some form.
8 But the very sight of Brinnaria was to her an irritant tonic.
9 It is a valuable counter - irritant in peritonitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, lumbago, pleurodynia, etc.
10 Well, it turns out that onions contain a chemical irritant called syn-propanethial-S-oxide.
11 And I will never again think of him as a petty irritant .
12 If this were meant as an irritant , it did not act successfully.
13 Keith's dick was so small, it registered only as a mild irritant .
14 Adams spoke up, in what was becoming an irritant to Matthew's ears.
15 The additive is not a skin irritant but is a dermal sensitiser.
16 The fleeting images are like cinders in the eyes, a constant irritant .
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Translations for irritant
Irritant в диалектах
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