Revulsant (noun)(historic) (rare)
ree-vul-sant
A medicine or treatment used to produce revulsion; a revulsive; a counterirritant.
Early 19th century. From revulse + -ant.
Example sentences
“We gave him a revulsant but the effects were not what we thought.”
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