asepsis
Americannoun
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absence of the microorganisms that produce sepsis or septic disease.
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Medicine/Medical. methods, as sterile surgical techniques, used to assure asepsis.
noun
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the state of being free from living pathogenic organisms
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the methods of achieving a germ-free condition
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The state of being free of pathogenic microorganisms.
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The process of removing microorganisms that cause infection.
Etymology
Origin of asepsis
Example Sentences
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Ironically, as Fitzharris reveals, Lister resisted this: he believed that asepsis would be impossible in the home, where the wealthy and middle classes were treated.
From Nature • Oct. 3, 2017
When asepsis finally came into fashion washing began in good earnest.
From Time Magazine Archive
The operation requires the best of skill and asepsis.
From Time Magazine Archive
The writing ranges from racy colloquialism to surgical asepsis.
From Time Magazine Archive
But a puncture made in a similar manner and with the same instrument without due regard to asepsis is likely to cause an infectious synovitis and arthritis usually follows.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor
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