ANTISEPTIC
\ˌantɪsˈɛptɪk], \ˌantɪsˈɛptɪk], \ˌa_n_t_ɪ_s_ˈɛ_p_t_ɪ_k]\
Definitions of ANTISEPTIC
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a substance that destroys micro-organisms that carry disease without harming body tissues
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(extended sense) of exceptionally clean language; "lyrics as antiseptic as Sunday School"
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clean and honest; "antiseptic financial practices"
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thoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease-causing organisms; "doctors in antiseptic green coats"; "the antiseptic effect of alcohol"; "it is said that marjoram has antiseptic qualities"
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made free from live bacteria or other microorganisms; "sterilized instruments"
By Princeton University
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a substance that destroys micro-organisms that carry disease without harming body tissues
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(extended sense) of exceptionally clean language; "lyrics as antiseptic as Sunday School"
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clean and honest; "antiseptic financial practices"
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thoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease-causing organisms; "doctors in antiseptic green coats"; "the antiseptic effect of alcohol"; "it is said that marjoram has antiseptic qualities"
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made free from live bacteria or other microorganisms; "sterilized instruments"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Alt. of Antiseptical
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A substance which prevents or retards putrefaction, or destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, salt, carbolic acid, alcohol, cinchona.
By Oddity Software
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Alt. of Antiseptical
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A substance which prevents or retards putrefaction, or destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, salt, carbolic acid, alcohol, cinchona.
By Noah Webster.
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Destroying the germs of disease or decay.
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Any substance which destroys disease germs or prevents their growth.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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Antiseptic.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Preventing putrefaction, etc. antiseptical.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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Opposed to putrefaction. The chief antiseptics, internally or externally employed, are Acidum Muriaticum, Acidum Nitricum, Acidum Sulphuricum, Aluminae sulphas, Carbo Ligni, Calx Chlorinata, Chlorinium, Cinchona and its active principles, Creasote, Dauci Radix, Fermentum Cerevisiae, Soda Chlorinata, and Zinci Chloridum.
By Robley Dunglison
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Preventing decay or putrefaction.
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A substance destructive of poisonous germs.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
