antiseptics

1. Substances that prevent or inhibit the growth of disease-causing microorganisms.

Example Sentences

He celebrated the wave of innovations that had enriched human existence—railroads, steamships, telegraphs, telephones, electric lights, anesthetics, antiseptics.

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Les spent long hours in the surgical theater, which in Macclesfield had little in the way of ventilation, and Joy typically found that he came home smelling of anesthetics, antiseptics and blood.

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It sells over-the-counter antiseptics and laxatives, according to court documents.

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Even then, before advances such as antiseptics, most people undergoing amputation surgery died of blood loss and shock or subsequent infection.

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Hand sanitizer was squirted so liberally that some distilleries pivoted from whiskey to alcohol antiseptics.

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