putrefactive

• Ordinarily meats contain from three million to ten times that number of bacteria per ounce, and such meats as hamburger steak often contain more than a billion putrefactive organisms to the ounce. —  Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the eighth annual meeting Stamford, Connecticut, September 5 and 6, 1917
• In the same way the term aseptic conveys the idea of freedom from all forms of bacteria, putrefactive or otherwise; and the term antiseptic is used to denote a power of counteracting bacteria and their products General Characters of Bacteria.#--A bacterium consists of a finely granular mass of protoplasm, enclosed in a thin gelatinous envelope. —  Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition.
• In the dry, sandy, uncultivated veldt of South Africa, bullet wounds seldom became infected, while those sustained in the highly manured fields of Belgium were almost invariably contaminated with putrefactive organisms, and gaseous gangrene and tetanus were common complications. —  Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition.
• BIOLOGY.--Poisons.--Abstract of a lecture by Prof. MEYMOTT TIDY, giving the relations of poisons to life 10273 The President's Annual Address to the Royal Microscopical Society.--The theory of putrefaction and putrefactive organisms.--Exhaustive review of the subject 10264 IV. —  Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888
• These bases are formed during life as a result of normal vital processes and are termed leucomaines Another class of bases of an alkaloidal nature, are termed ptomaines; these differ from the leucomaines, being produced by putrefactive or bacterial agency from dead flesh. —  The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition

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