(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.
Iodoform
Definition:
(n.) A yellow, crystalline, volatile substance, CI3H, having an offensive odor and sweetish taste, and analogous to chloroform. It is used in medicine as a healing and antiseptic dressing for wounds and sores.
Example Sentences:
(1) Meanwhile, higher dose of iodoform was required for induction of aplasia or depression of the dental pulp or root dentain.
(2) The toxicity of iodoform is probably unrecognized if the rarity of the observations published and the amount of iodoform gauzes annually sold are compared.
(3) The iodoform paste that was applied as a result of canal treatment, which was performed on the left mandibular second premolar, did not only overfill the apical lesion of that tooth but also extended as far as the apical region of the left mandibular second molar.
(5) The root canal filling material "Vitapex" (Neo Dental Chemical Products Co., Tokyo), made of calcium hydroxide and iodoform with the addition of silicone oil, was experimentally injected into the mandibular canals of dogs, and its effect on the alveolar nerve tissue was examined by light and electron microscopy.
(6) Postoperative treatment with a vaselinated iodoform gauze lasted between 3 and 5 weeks.
(7) Plasma iodine determinations were carried out on the toxic patient and three others with iodoform containing packs.
(8) One hundred and forty eight patients with bilateral symmetrically impacted lower third molars entered a clinical crossover trial to compare the effects on postoperative recovery of a Bismuth Iodoform Paraffin Paste (BIPP) socket dressing, primary closure using a resorbable suture (Softgut) and to ascertain if prophylactic metronidazole influenced the outcome.
(9) The disinfection treatment carried out on these same surfaces had a positive effect, leading to a reduction in microbial findings of at least 98% both using energetic disinfectants based on iodoform products, and also milder disinfectants based on quaternary ammonium.
(10) The metabolism of haloforms to CO followed the halide order; thus, iodoform yielded the greatest amount of CO, whereas chloroform yielded the smallest amount.
(11) Three cases of iodoform poisoning are described following dressings with 10% iodoform gauze (0.10 x 5 m) on extended wounds.
(12) It was concluded that the Ca(OH)2-iodoform paste, Vitapex, produced better results than Ca(OH)2-CMCP paste in treatment of infected nonvital permanent teeth with incompletely formed apices.
(13) Immediate wound care involved dressing the defect with zinc iodoform paste on ribbon gauze for 4 weeks when complete granulation and epithelialisation occurred.
(14) The closest to the ideal appears to be a calcium hydroxide-iodoform mixture.
(15) Tested was the effect of the iodoform preparation iosan and the quaternary ammonium preparation bradofen against the viruses of the Newcastle disease (strain La Sota), laryngotracheitis (strain TsNIIP) and fowl pox (strain FK) in birds.
(16) A paste consisting of equal amounts of calcium hydroxide and iodoform mixed with glycerin was used.
(17) The surgical procedure is a modification of the maxillary sinus approach, which includes the use of iodoform gauze packing, nasal antrostomy, a double layer oral closure and prophylactic antibiotics.
(18) 40 teeth of a complex canal anatomy and or in the posterior position in the buccal cavity were submitted to either a manual canalisation preparation or endosconic followed by monconic canal filling with a paste: 3 inc oxyde eugenol and iodoform.
(19) Seven substances (1,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane, 1,2-dibromoethane, 1,2-dichloroethane, vinyl bromide, hexachloro-1,3-butadiene, iodoform and vinilydene chloride) were mutagenic at non-lethal doses.
(20) The ultrastructural aspects of initial calcification in the rat subcutaneous tissues elicited by the root canal filling material Vitapex, made up of calcium hydroxide and iodoform with the addition of silicone oil, were studied by means of electron microscopic and cytochemical techniques.