Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being aseptic; the carrying out of measures which insure asepsis.
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- noun dated
freedom fromsepsis ;asepsis
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Examples
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In any case there is much common ground between the two schools: each can learn from the other, and those professors of asepticism who have acknowledged their debt to Lister have been wiser than those who have made contention their aim.
Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore
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By use of the forceps, by skill acquired in version, by procuring premature labour, and especially by asepticism in the Caesarean section and other equivalent operations, medical science has found much improved means of saving both the child and its mother.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Farther, as Mr. Eliot has recently emphasized in his inspiring Ether-Day lecture (Oct. 16, 1909), asepticism and anaesthesia "have opened a great field of animal experimentation, which has already yielded invaluable additions to our knowledge of physiology, pharmacology and pathology" ...
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