(n.) A substance which prevents or retards putrefaction, or destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, salt, carbolic acid, alcohol, cinchona.
Example Sentences:
(1) Microbiological investigations made by membrane filtration method on antiseptics and disinfectants demonstrated that the filtering membranes present very frequently a remarkable antimicrobial activity, even after washing with 300 ml of peptone water according to the guidelines of the Pharmacopoeia.
(2) In view of the severe course seen in the presence of any suppurated pancreatic necrosis, it was felt to be of value to treat two patients by the adjuvant use of a new antiseptic tauroline, administered locally and, where appropriate, systemically.
(3) Povidone-iodine is frequently used as an antiseptic in patients on chronic dialysis.
(4) A procedure is described, topical applications for testing dermal toxicity of antiseptics.
(5) Even the Pentagon’s website for the war prefers the relatively antiseptic term “ Targeted Operations Against [Isis] Terrorists ”.
(6) Prematurity is shown to be a necessary prerequisite for central nervous system vacuolation to occur during routine antiseptic skin care of newborn infants with 3% hexachlorophene emulsions.
(7) Lister, a Scottish surgeon, was the first physician to apply the germ theory to clinical practice and developed the techniques of antiseptic surgery and wound care, resulting in dramatic reductions in surgical mortality.
(8) Four antiseptic solutions commonly used for operative preparation were tested to determine thrir potential for sterilizing the external auditory canal.
(9) They are very sensitive to the antiseptic agents currently used to purify drinking water.
(10) Blood collection for culture purposes must preferably involve alcohol as an antiseptic for cleaning donor skin or suitable receptacles.
(11) In development of the wound infection it seems rational to accomplish an active drainage of the wound with local and general administration of massive doses of specific antibiotics, proteolytic enzymes, antiseptics and then to close a vascular graft by viable tissues.
(12) The influence of four antiseptic solutions on some dental materials was examined in this study.
(13) April 21, 1971 for cosmetics, changed in order to apply it to antiseptics.
(14) A new topical antiseptic agent, 5 per cent polyvinylpyrrolidone-iodine (PVP-I) cream, with altered physicochemical properties, incorporated in a different carrier base has proved in vivo to be more effective in controlling burn wound infections than 10 per cent PVP-I ointment.
(15) The contamination rate was not influenced by the antiseptic procedure, and corresponded to the accepted percentage reported in most other studies.
(16) The material passed through an antiseptic bath (liquid-lock) of I per 100 quaternary ammonium in water.
(17) Pseudomonas cepacia is also resistant for many antiseptics.
(18) The technique has been tried with 176 anaerobe strains isolated from maxillofacial purulent foci from 76 patients; sensitivities to 42 antibiotics and antiseptics have been tested.
(19) This study examined two interdependent factors: the time taken to wash the hands and the type of antiseptic solution used.
(20) An experimental animal model of operative wound suppuration was elaborated to specify rational antibiotic-antiseptic prophylaxis and adequate wound drainage.
Antiseptically
Definition:
(adv.) By means of antiseptics.
Example Sentences:
(1) Microbiological investigations made by membrane filtration method on antiseptics and disinfectants demonstrated that the filtering membranes present very frequently a remarkable antimicrobial activity, even after washing with 300 ml of peptone water according to the guidelines of the Pharmacopoeia.
(2) In view of the severe course seen in the presence of any suppurated pancreatic necrosis, it was felt to be of value to treat two patients by the adjuvant use of a new antiseptic tauroline, administered locally and, where appropriate, systemically.
(3) Povidone-iodine is frequently used as an antiseptic in patients on chronic dialysis.
(4) A procedure is described, topical applications for testing dermal toxicity of antiseptics.
(5) Even the Pentagon’s website for the war prefers the relatively antiseptic term “ Targeted Operations Against [Isis] Terrorists ”.
(6) Prematurity is shown to be a necessary prerequisite for central nervous system vacuolation to occur during routine antiseptic skin care of newborn infants with 3% hexachlorophene emulsions.
(7) Lister, a Scottish surgeon, was the first physician to apply the germ theory to clinical practice and developed the techniques of antiseptic surgery and wound care, resulting in dramatic reductions in surgical mortality.
(8) Four antiseptic solutions commonly used for operative preparation were tested to determine thrir potential for sterilizing the external auditory canal.
(9) They are very sensitive to the antiseptic agents currently used to purify drinking water.
(10) Blood collection for culture purposes must preferably involve alcohol as an antiseptic for cleaning donor skin or suitable receptacles.
(11) In development of the wound infection it seems rational to accomplish an active drainage of the wound with local and general administration of massive doses of specific antibiotics, proteolytic enzymes, antiseptics and then to close a vascular graft by viable tissues.
(12) The influence of four antiseptic solutions on some dental materials was examined in this study.
(13) April 21, 1971 for cosmetics, changed in order to apply it to antiseptics.
(14) A new topical antiseptic agent, 5 per cent polyvinylpyrrolidone-iodine (PVP-I) cream, with altered physicochemical properties, incorporated in a different carrier base has proved in vivo to be more effective in controlling burn wound infections than 10 per cent PVP-I ointment.
(15) The contamination rate was not influenced by the antiseptic procedure, and corresponded to the accepted percentage reported in most other studies.
(16) The material passed through an antiseptic bath (liquid-lock) of I per 100 quaternary ammonium in water.
(17) Pseudomonas cepacia is also resistant for many antiseptics.
(18) The technique has been tried with 176 anaerobe strains isolated from maxillofacial purulent foci from 76 patients; sensitivities to 42 antibiotics and antiseptics have been tested.
(19) This study examined two interdependent factors: the time taken to wash the hands and the type of antiseptic solution used.
(20) An experimental animal model of operative wound suppuration was elaborated to specify rational antibiotic-antiseptic prophylaxis and adequate wound drainage.