Putrefaction is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PUTREFACTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• rotting
• the process of decay or rotting in a body or other organic matter
• The act or the process of putrefying; the offensive decay of albuminous or other matter.
• The condition of being putrefied; also, that which putrefied.
• a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
• (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
• moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the decomposition of organic matter; the typically anaerobic splitting of proteins by bacteria and fungi with the formation of foul-smelling incompletely oxidized products

Words related to PUTREFACTION

putrefactions20 putrefy15

Words that contain PUTREFACTION

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How to use PUTREFACTION in a sentence

• The masks were, quite simply, to be advanced so far in the way of putrefaction that the bristles would part readily from their sockets.
• In the Newfoundland fishery they are taken out previous to incipient putrefaction, washed from their slime and salted for exportation.
• The processes of fermentation and putrefaction cannot commence in any substance, until it has first taken oxygen into combination.
• If the minutest opening remain, the oxygen of the atmosphere combines with the contents of the can, and fermentation or putrefaction follows.
• We have in this case a deep punctured wound, and a wound that in every probability is infected with the organisms of pus or of putrefaction.
• I frequently washed the wounds of John, with salt water, to prevent putrefaction.
• Finally, we must refer to the numerous bacteria that occasion putrefaction in vegetable or animal organisms.
• It is perfectly harmless, never attacking even the smallest living animal, and seems always to prefer carrion when in a state of putrefaction.
• It is a bed of flowers, growing over a sepulchre, and drawing its life from the loathsome putrefaction within.
• Their protein is not always easily digested and is, therefore, likewise liable to putrefaction.
• The only feeling evinced was that of annoyance because of the bother caused by the necessity of getting this body, threatening putrefaction, out of the way.
• The former is a powerful antiseptic to arrest putrefaction.
• It does not undergo putrefaction so readily any way, and besides meat carries along with it the bacteria which produce putrefaction.
• The development of these minute organisms is the exciting cause of fermentation and putrefaction.
• After a thorough drying, putrefaction does not take place as long as it remains dry.
• They act in direct opposition to putrefaction, and in proportion to the quantity of alcohol which they contain, so will be their value and beneficial tendency.
• Charcoal, reduced to an impalpable powder, and mixed with an equal quantity of magnesia, renders the teeth white, and stops putrefaction.
• And during and after these proceedings not only did the dead nun give out no smell of putrefaction, but, as in her lifetime, she diffused an ineffable and exquisite perfume.
• The bacteria of tuberculosis are said to act more viciously if accompanied by the bacteria of putrefaction.
• While riding in his coach, he was struck with the idea that snow would arrest animal putrefaction.
• Two or three of our wounded were found to be still alive, but with their wounds in a terrible state of putrefaction.
• Flesh meat leaves a residue in which the bacteria of putrefaction find a congenial home.
• Let us proceed to another article, one of the most material, the care to guard against putrefaction, by keeping clean the persons, the cloaths, bedding, and berths of the sailors.
• The surgeon would now be held in ill-repute that should permit to any considerable degree the processes of putrefaction to take place in a wound of which he has had the care.

Similar words containing PUTREFAC without suffix tion

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