antisepticism

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

antiseptic +‎ -ism

Noun[edit]

antisepticism (uncountable)

  1. (medicine) The use of antiseptics.
    • 1894, Canadian practitioner, volume 19:
      The temperature chart is very interesting, and yet very like that which was not uncommonly seen in both hospital and private surgical practice before the days of antisepticism.

Translations[edit]

antisepsis — see antisepsis
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