PUTREFACTION
\pjˌuːtɹɪfˈakʃən], \pjˌuːtɹɪfˈakʃən], \p_j_ˌuː_t_ɹ_ɪ_f_ˈa_k_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of PUTREFACTION
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Oddity Software
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The act or process of decaying; rottenness.
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Putrescence.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By William R. Warner
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A decomposition, experienced by animal substances, when deprived of life, and placed under special circumstances. The presence of water is indispensable, the temperature most favourable to it, is from 60 to 90 of Fahrenheit. The most common products of putrefaction are, water, carbonic acid, acetic acid, ammonia, carburetted hydrogen, and a semi-putrid substance, which is volatilized, and has an infected odour. It has been supposed that something like putrefaction may occur in the living body, as in case of putrid fever. To this condition, Piorry has given the name Typhohaemia, conceiving it to be owing to alteration of the blood by putrid animal matters. Putrefaction signifies the state of becoming putrid: whilst Putridity, Putredo, Putriditas, P'tridness, (F.) Pourriture, is the state of rottenness.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The earlier stages of decomposition in which the anaerobic bacteria reduce the albuminous substances to offensive by-products and gases. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. Act or process of putrefying;-process by which decaying, diseased, or dead vegetable or animal matter is disorganized and decomposed ;-state of undergoing putrefaction or of being decomposed and rotting ; -any body which is rotting or putrefying ;-also, that which is putrefied.
