DISINFECTANT
\dˌɪsɪnfˈɛktənt], \dˌɪsɪnfˈɛktənt], \d_ˌɪ_s_ɪ_n_f_ˈɛ_k_t_ə_n_t]\
Definitions of DISINFECTANT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 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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an agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease
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preventing infection by inhibiting the growth or action of microorganisms
By Princeton University
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an agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease
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preventing infection by inhibiting the growth or action of microorganisms
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. Destroying the germs of putrefaction or disease, or inhibiting their activity. 2. An agent which possesses this property.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Disinfectans, from dis, and inficio, infectum, (in and facio,) 'I infect,' (F.) Desinfectant. This term has been restricted by some to agents that are capable of neutralizing morbific effluvia; but the author includes under it; also, antiseptics or agents that are capable of removing any incipient or fully formed septic condition of the living body, or of any part of it.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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