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Aseptic   Listen
adjective
Aseptic  adj.  
1.
Not liable to putrefaction; nonputrescent.
2.
Free from pathogenic microorganisms; sterile; as, aseptic operating conditions.
3.
(metaphorical) Lacking emotion, human warmth, or excitement.





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"Aseptic" Quotes from Famous Books



... to joints, when these wounds are of considerable extent, cause inflammation of such articulations by contiguous extension of inflammation. As long as an injury remains practically aseptic, or if infected and the septic process does not involve the joint proper by direct extension, no more serious disturbance than a simple synovitis will result. If, instead, a periarthritic inflammation is serious or destructive in character, the type of arthritis ...
— Lameness of the Horse - Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 • John Victor Lacroix
... immortal chemist, that we owe this theory, as well as that of the attenuation of viruses—both of more than theoretical import, since they have given us aseptic surgery, the power of frequently preventing hydrophobia, the antitoxine treatment of diphtheria, and the ability to stay the hand of Death in the form of many a stalking pestilence. Every infectious disease is now held to be due to its own particular micro-organism, ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIV • John Lord


Words linked to "Aseptic" :   sterile, asepsis, antiseptic


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