counterirritant
- n a medicine applied locally to produce superficial inflammation in order to reduce deeper inflammation
- Just as useful as chaulmoogra oil, upon which hopes have risen high, is "any kind of counterirritant.
- In desperation, he learned how to tickle his nose until he sneezed, which helped somewhat as a counterirritant.
- Landa got into the fight nearly two years ago when Chicago's Fairbanks, Morse decided to back him financially as a counterirritant to Silberstein, who tried unsuccessfully to win .