Mustard Gas
Severe irritant and vesicant of skin, eyes, and lungs. It may cause blindness and lethal lung edema and was formerly used as a war gas. The substance has been proposed as a cytostatic and for treatment of psoriasis. It has been listed as a known carcinogen in the Fourth Annual Report on Carcinogens (NTP-85-002, 1985) (Merck, 11th ed).
Year introduced: 1991(1975)1963-1967
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Tree Number(s): D02.455.526.728.468
MeSH Unique ID: D009151
Registry Number: T8KEC9FH9P
Entry Terms:
- Gas, Mustard
- Di-2-chloroethyl Sulfide
- Di 2 chloroethyl Sulfide
- Sulfide, Di-2-chloroethyl
- Dichlorodiethyl Sulfide
- Sulfide, Dichlorodiethyl
- Mustardgas
- Bis(beta-chloroethyl) Sulfide
- Yellow Cross Liquid
- Yperite
- Sulfur Mustard
- Mustard, Sulfur
- Psoriazin
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