a. and sb. Med. [ad. Gr. ἐκτυλωτικός, f. ἐκτυλό-ειν, recorded in sense of ‘swell out into a callus,’ but here taken as meaning ‘to remove warts,’ f. ἐκ out + τύλος wart.] (See quots.)
1736. Bailey, Ectyloticks, remedies proper to consume and eat off callus’s, warts and other excrescences found on the flesh.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp.
1847. Craig, Ectylotic, having a tendency to remove callosities or indurations of the skin.
1864. in Webster.
