Definitions for asepsis

asepsis a·sep·sis

Spelling: [uh-sep-sis, ey-sep-]
IPA: /əˈsɛp sɪs, eɪˈsɛp-/

Asepsis is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 113 anagrams from letters in asepsis (aeipsss).

Definitions for asepsis

noun

  1. absence of the microorganisms that produce sepsis or septic disease.
  2. Medicine/Medical. methods, as sterile surgical techniques, used to assure asepsis.

Origin of asepsis

First recorded in 1890-95; a-6 + sepsis

Examples for asepsis

Infection would depend most probably upon the asepsis of the first dressing.

Surgical safety, however, can be secured by the employment of a perfect technic for asepsis.

As it begins from pus bacteria, it is not seen so frequently now as formerly, owing to greater attention to asepsis.

The head cases on the other hand bore movement fairly well, provided only that asepsis was ensured.

From that he branched into antisepsis as opposed to asepsis as a practical method in the field.

Thus the older men, who had been trained before the day of asepsis and modern methods, were revered but carefully watched.

It is without doubt an ideal food for any climate where concentration is desirable and asepsis cannot be neglected.

asepsis, it is true, has reduced the average residence in hospital from about 35 to less than 20 days.

Much stress has been laid upon the subject of asepsis and antisepsis.

And why are we so concerned today about asepsis, sterilization, etc., when a generation ago they were not?

Word Value for asepsis
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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