injurant

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English

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Adjective

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injurant (not comparable)

  1. Causing injury.
    • 1991, Alan J. Feister, Medical Defense Against Mustard Gas, page 1991:
      Since GSH is thought to play a prominent role in protecting cells against the injurant effects of many electrophilic xenobiotic chemicals […]

Noun

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injurant (plural injurants)

  1. Any substance that causes injury.
    Phosgene is a lung injurant.
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