Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Antiseptical"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Antiseptic \An`ti*sep"tic\, Antiseptical \An`ti*sep"tic*al\, a.
Counteracting or preventing putrefaction, or a putrescent
tendency in the system; antiputrefactive.

{Antiseptic surgery}, that system of surgical practice which
insists upon a systematic use of antiseptics in the
performance of operations and the dressing of wounds.


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