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Asepsis

noun
1.
(of non-living objects) the state of being free of pathogenic organisms.  Synonyms: antisepsis, sterileness, sterility.
2.
The process of inhibiting the growth and multiplication of microorganisms.  Synonym: antisepsis.






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"Asepsis" Quotes from Famous Books



... operated for osteomyelitis of the leg. Our most famous surgeon in 1880 was Sir Walter Rivington; and to-day there rises in memory the picture of him removing a leg at the thigh, clad in a blood-stained, black velvet coat, and without any attempt at or idea of asepsis. The main thing was speed, although the patient was under ether, and in quickly turning round the tip of the sword-like amputation knife, he made a gash in the patient's other leg. The whole thing seemed horrible enough ...
— A Labrador Doctor - The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell • Wilfred Thomason Grenfell



Words linked to "Asepsis" :   antisepsis, sanitariness, sterileness, organic process, aseptic, biological process



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