Word Meanings - ANTISEPSIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Prevention of sepsis by excluding or destroying microorganisms.

Related words: (words related to ANTISEPSIS)

• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• EXCLUDE
  Etym: 1. To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from
• SEPSIS
  The poisoning of the system by the introduction of putrescent material into the blood.
• PREVENTIONAL
  Tending to prevent.
• DESTROY
  destruire, F. détruire, fr. L. destruere, destructum; de + struere to 1. To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish. But ye shall destroy
• PREVENTION
  1. The act of going, or state of being, before. The greater the distance, the greater the prevention. Bacon. 2. Anticipation; esp., anticipation of needs or wishes; hence, precaution; forethought. Hammond. Shak. 3. The act of preventing
• DESTROYER
  One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates.
• ASEPSIS
  State of being aseptic; the methods or processes of asepticizing.
• SELF-DESTROYER
  One who destroys himself; a suicide.
• ANTISEPSIS
  Prevention of sepsis by excluding or destroying microorganisms.
• TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER
  A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedo boats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat.
• UNDESTROYABLE
  Indestructible.
• COMMERCE DESTROYER
  A very fast, unarmored, lightly armed vessel designed to capture or destroy merchant vessels of an enemy. Not being intended to fight, they may be improvised from fast passenger steamers.