Antiseptic is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ANTISEPTIC in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a substance that inhibits the growth or action of microorganisms
• an antiseptic compound or preparation
• A substance which prevents or retards putrefaction, or destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, salt, carbolic acid, alcohol, cinchona.
• a substance that destroys micro-organisms that carry disease without harming body tissues
ADJECTIVE:
• inhibiting the growth of micororganism
• preventing the growth of disease-causing microorganisms
• scrupulously clean or pure, especially so as to be bland or characterless
• inhibiting the growth of microorganisms
• Alt. of Antiseptical
• thoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease-causing organisms
• clean and honest
• freeing from error or corruption
• devoid of objectionable language
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• opposing sepsis, putrefaction, or decay; preventing or arresting the growth of microorganisms (as on living tissue); acting or protecting like an antiseptic

Words related to ANTISEPTIC

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Words that contain ANTISEPTIC

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How to use ANTISEPTIC in a sentence

• The last-mentioned operation of salt as an antiseptic is evinced by the diminution of the volume of meat to which it is applied.
• Under this strip is a piece of antiseptic gauze, a strip of bandage and plaster and cloth for the outer bandage.
• This done, the foot should be rinsed in cold water, and afterwards constantly soaked in a cold antiseptic bath.
• In addition to the fact that such solutions are for a time below the temperature of simple water, we have the advantage that they have also a more or less antiseptic property.
• With the pus thus given exit, and an antiseptic dressing regularly applied, the case sometimes ends in rapid resolution.
• There is no doubt, that in this case also, the cold or warm antiseptic bath is to be preferred to the poultice.
• The bandage should be removed daily and the antiseptic pad changed.
• The sting of the bees is used not only for defense, but quite principally serves the important purpose of contributing to the stored honey an antizymotic and antiseptic substance.
• Coal tar is the best material for covering wounds because it has both an antiseptic and a protective effect on the wood tissue.
• After the removal of the bandages, the only treatment necessary is an occasional application of some mildly antiseptic ointment.
• Bill closed his instrument case, and returned the bottles of antiseptic drugs to the miniature chest he carried.
• They lived in the smell of straw, blood and antiseptic.
• The Council had surrounded you with antiseptic conditions.
• The rafters therefore, are covered with a kind of tar which, undoubtedly, acts as an antiseptic, and also keeps away the insects.
• They also collect and despatch comforts of every kind, from motor ambulances to antiseptic pads.

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