(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.
Bactericide
Definition:
(n.) Same as Germicide.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 0.1 M phosphate buffer eluant was electrophoretically heterogeneous and did not elicit the production of bactericidal antibodies in rabbits.
(2) The serum of these patients caused mainly a fall of the bactericidal activity of the leucocytes, and this was caused more frequently by a deficit of the opsonizing factors than by the presence of inhibitor.
(3) Depressed PMN chemotactic responsiveness was observed in 17.5% of 97 patients studied, depressed PMN bactericidal activity in 23.3% of 30 patients, and depressed PMN chemiluminescence activity in 15.8% of 19 patients.
(4) Serum from piglets of vaccinated sows had no more bactericidal activity than did sera from non-vaccinated sows.
(5) Immunized nonvirus-infected animals showed enhancement of pulmonary bactericidal activity for the homologous and heterologous strains in comparison with nonimmunized animals.
(6) Bactericidal effects were observed for concentrations as low as 0.025%.
(7) Comparison with bactericidal activity of the same sera was done.
(8) Whey obtained by acid precipitation or by the application of rennin was devoid of bactericidal activity but was capable of slowing down proliferation of E coli.
(9) Bactericidal effects were also demonstrated by benzyl penicillin against Clostridium welchii and ampicillin against Escherichia coli.
(10) Since this cytokine has been reported to activate polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMN) function, the effect of TNF on the in vitro bactericidal capacity of PMN-enriched cultures was determined.
(11) The involvement of other bacterial lipoproteins in conferring resistance to the bactericidal effects of complement prompted us to examine this possibility in V. cholerae.
(12) The resistance of gonococci in most patients to complement mediated killing by human serum is due to sialylation of their lipopolysaccharide (LPS) which prevents bactericidal antibody from reacting with target sites.
(13) None bactericidal effect was observed with each beta-lactamin alone.
(14) Ciprofloxacin has a bactericidal activity at concentrations obtained in urine and into lung tissue.
(15) Minimal bactericidal concentrations for gram-positive cocci approximated the minimal inhibitory concentrations.
(16) Piperacillin, ceftazidime, imipenem, and ciprofloxacin were not bactericidal for three selected P. pseudomallei strains as determined by time-kill curve methods.
(17) 38 of 39 strains (97%) of N. gonorrhoeae from Seattle patients with disseminated gonococcal infection were resistant to the complement-dependent bactericidal action of normal human sera.
(18) Further investigations demonstrated that chitotriose and chitobiose were also potent inhibitors of the bactericidal activity of the cationic homopolypeptides poly-L-arginine and poly-D-lysine.
(19) Depleting normal human serum of antibodies to P6 by affinity chromatography resulted in reduced bactericidal activity of that serum for nontypeable H. influenzae.
(20) Despite defective bactericidal function of monocytes, the patient's macrophages killed bacteria normally.