NOUN
- the process of inhibiting the growth and multiplication of microorganisms
- (of non-living objects) the state of being free of pathogenic organisms
How To Use antisepsis In A Sentence
- Candidate antisepsis therapies have included agents that target host cell activation, mediators of the inflammatory response, agents that boost the immune response, and prostaglandin inhibitors.
- Again, the controversies over antisepsis, asepsis and germ theory are dealt with summarily. Times, Sunday Times
- Policies for general hand hygiene and surgical hand antisepsis should be established in conjunction with infection control practitioners and meet the particular needs of the practice setting.
- Alcohol-based rubs can replace some portion of hand washing, but repeated use of these hand rubs for skin antisepsis can lead to dry skin.
- And why "luckily" - if you had let the Jocks stay you might have invented something, a tyre say, or a telephone or even penicillin or antisepsis (Just couldn't resist that - and I'm not even a Jock!). Army Rumour Service
- The most important progress in the surgical management of patients during the past 100 years has resulted from non-operative components of surgical care: anaesthesia, antisepsis, and asepsis.
- Wooden operating theaters were created to accommodate hordes of students who learned by watching professors perform surgery, and Joseph Lister's ideas about antisepsis added to the importance of these arenas.
- Semmelweis, for instance, is associated with 1847, the year when he introduced antisepsis by chlorine washings to prevent puerperal fever.
- The Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee provides an in-depth review and guideline for hand antisepsis in healthcare settings.
- The Viennese have contributed medical innovations such as antisepsis and new therapies such as psychoanalysis to the world.