What's the difference between antiseptic and listerism?

Antiseptic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Antiseptical
  • (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.

Listerism


Definition:

  • (n.) The systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the treatment of wounds; -- so called from Joseph Lister, an English surgeon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.” Diversity needs action beyond the Oscars | Letters Read more He may have provided the Richard Littlejohn wishlist from hell – you know the one, about the one-legged black lesbian in a hijab favoured by the politically correct – but as a Hollywood A-lister, the joke’s no longer on him.
  • (2) Detailed studies of the effects of acid pH on the formation of Fraction C after borohydride reduction demonstrated the apparent lability of the non-reduced form, thus confirming our previous findings (Bailey & Lister, 1968).
  • (3) Several stages in its histogenesis may be discerned: I. focal necroses of hepatic cells associated with their invasion with lister Listeria; 2. appearance of cellular elements around the foci of necroses with subsequent formation of granulemas consisting mainly of leucocytes and lymphoid cells; 3. development of necrobiotic changes in the central areas of granulemas with concomitance of exudative processes; 4. organization of necrotic foci with subsequent scarring.
  • (4) She was accompanied by a Scottish Labour activist Hannah Lister.
  • (5) 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.
  • (6) Rats of the Hooded-Lister strain were sensitized and challenged with ovalbumin.
  • (7) Sir Edward Lister, Johnson's chief-of-staff and the deputy mayor for planning, said his boss's priority was to increase the number of low-cost homes for Londoners, and that since 2008 more than 76,000 affordable homes had been built in the city.
  • (8) Simpson, Semmelweis, Lister, and Ogston all found their ideas scorned by members of the profession, which may have feared being held responsible for deaths.
  • (9) The assay also successfully detected and measured specific anti-LLO antibodies in the sera of silage-fed sheep among which listeric enteritis and abortions had occurred.
  • (10) The Human Engineering Division of the Armstrong Laboratory (USAF); the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology; the Washington University School of Medicine; and the Lister-Hill National Center for Biomedical Communication, National Library of Medicine are sponsoring a working group on electronic imaging of the human body.
  • (11) Providing more affordable homes, both to rent and buy, is one of the mayor’s top priorities, and the report to be considered by the mayor proposes to double the amount of affordable housing in these planning applications,” Sir Edward Lister, the deputy mayor for planning, said.
  • (12) Vaccinia viruses LC16m0 and LC16m8 are temperature-sensitive and low-neurovirulent variants derived from the Lister (Elstree) (LO) strain.
  • (13) Trachoma organisms of immunotypes A, B and C prepared in yolk sac produced more inclusion-forming units per ml in CO60 BHK-21 Lister than in CO60 McCoy.
  • (14) About 400 British nationals are thought to be fighting in Syria, with a majority likely to be involved with Isis or its affiliated factions, according to Charles Lister, a Middle East analyst at the Brookings Doha Centre.
  • (15) This congenic strain of the Lister and Albany rat is normotensive, corpulent, and hyperlipidemic when homozygous for the corpulent (cp) gene derived from the Koletsky strain.
  • (16) Intracardiac injection, in hooded Lister rats, of syngeneic MC28 sarcoma cells never induced tumour growth in normal bowel.
  • (17) The clinical, angiographic, and histopathological features of experimental posterior uveitis in the black hooded Lister rat are described.
  • (18) We compared the time course of changes in serum levels of circulating immune complexes (CICs) and of IgG antibody after sensitization of albino Lewis and pigmented Lister strain rats with uveitogenic (retinal S-antigen) and non-uveitogenic (ovalbumin) protein antigens of comparable molecular weight.
  • (19) One in eight Universities Central Council on Admissions (UCCA) applications for admission to St Mary's Hospital Medical School in 1986 were in due course recirculated to the four short-listers, being seen again either by the same short-lister or by another short-lister.
  • (20) A standard challenge with percutaneous smallpox vaccine was administered to 629 children six to 12 months after percutaneous primary inoculation with one of four vaccines (New York City Board of Health strains grown in calf lymph or chorioallantoic membranes, the Lister vaccine, or the CV-1 strain).

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