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Disinfection   Listen
noun
disinfection  n.  The act of disinfecting; purification from infecting matter.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Disinfection" Quotes from Famous Books



... doctor, the town board of health, family physicians, and mothers. Every teacher can exterminate disease by applying the very same principles to her schoolroom as Chief Medical Inspector Gorgas applied to Panama. Knowledge, disinfection, absolute cleanliness, education, and inspection are the essential steps. First she must know that "children's diseases" are not necessary. She should discountenance the old superstition that every child must run the gamut of children's diseases, that every child must sooner ...
— Civics and Health • William H. Allen

... one Frenchwoman in particular, because she had once explained to me the necessities of civilized life. These included a masseuse, a manicurist, and a maid to look after the lapdogs. She is employed now, and has been for months past, on the disinfection and repair of soldiers' clothes. There was no need to ask after the men one had known. Still, there was no sense of desolation. They had gone on; ...
— France At War - On the Frontier of Civilization • Rudyard Kipling

... fever. The prisons of that period were vile beyond belief. Men were confined in dungeons rarely if ever disinfected after the death of previous occupants, and on corridors connecting directly with the foulest sewers: there was no proper disinfection, ventilation, or drainage; hence in most of the large prisons for criminals or debtors the jail fever was supreme, and from these centres it frequently spread through the adjacent towns. This was especially the case during the sixteenth and seventeenth ...
— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White



Words linked to "Disinfection" :   disinfect, medical care, medical aid



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