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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.



noun
Aseptic  n.  An aseptic substance.






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"Aseptic" Quotes from Famous Books



... filth within these croupier types that makes them surround themselves with the aseptic immaculacy of iridium and glass. Their office was in a penthouse perched on the slanting roof shakes of the casino. It was big as a squash court, and as high and as square. Every wall was glass. It couldn't have been in greater contrast ...
— Vigorish • Gordon Randall Garrett

... any reason to suspect that dirt or other foreign matter has come in contact with a sore or cut, the wound may be freely washed with a solution of listerine in order to clean it and render it as nearly aseptic as possible. When there are distinct signs of inflammation it should not be relied upon. Do not use it internally without ...
— The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) • Various

... law of organic growth, y ekt, and the law of 'organic decay,' y e-kt, is a recently discovered law which connects algebraically by an equation and graphically by a curve, the surface-area of a wound, with time expressed in days, measured from the time when the wound is aseptic or sterile. When this aseptic condition is reached, by washing and flushing continually with antiseptic solutions, two observations at an interval commonly of four days give the 'index of the individual,' and this index, and the two measurements ...
— Manhood of Humanity. • Alfred Korzybski

... performance of such an insanitary operation, in the very nature of the case, is a violation of the cardinal principles of hygiene and of sanitary science.... Moreover, this operation is in direct controversion of the basic principles of aseptic surgery, the legitimate aim of which is to remove from the organism the products of disease, but ...
— The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 - The Independent Health Magazine • Various

... the 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 ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIV • John Lord

... established the germ theory of fermentation, putrefaction, and disease; about the same time the English surgeon Lister (1827-1914) began to use antiseptics in surgery; and, in 1879, the bacillus of typhoid fever was found. Out of this work the modern sciences of pathology, aseptic surgery, bacteriology, and immunity were created, and the cause and mode of transmission of the great diseases [16] which once decimated armies and cities—plague, cholera, malaria, typhoid, typhus, yellow fever, dysentery—as ...
— THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION • ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY



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