disinfection

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ infection.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪsɪnˈfɛkʃən/
• Rhymes: -ɛkʃən

Noun

disinfection (countable and uncountable, plural disinfections)

1. Treatment with disinfectant materials in order to destroy harmful microorganisms.
   • 2003, M Wainwright, “Local treatment of viral disease using photodynamic therapy”, in International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents:

     Recent activity in the field of blood product disinfection has been based on a photovirucidal approach, with the requirement that the other microbial branches are also susceptible.

   • 2015 December 12, “Factors Influencing the Recurrence Potential of Benign Endometrial Polyps after Hysteroscopic Polypectomy”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     In brief, after application of the speculum and disinfection of the cervix, the hysterovideoscope was introduced intracervically.

   • 2020 March 27, Michael Schulson & Undark, “Deep Cleaners Have Their Day in a Nation Paralyzed by a Pathogen”, in Scientific American‎^[2]:

     Whether full-room disinfections are necessary is not always clear.

Derived terms

• photodisinfection

 

Related terms

• disinfect
• disinfectant
• disinfectation

Translations

treatment

• Azerbaijani: dezinfeksiya
• Bulgarian: дезинфекция (bg) f (dezinfekcija), обеззаразяване n (obezzarazjavane)
• Catalan: desinfecció f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 消毒 (zh) (xiāodú)

• Czech: dezinfekce (cs) f
• Danish: desinfektion c, desinficering c
• Finnish: desinfiointi (fi)
• French: désinfection (fr) f
• Galician: desinfección (gl) f
• German: Desinfektion (de) f, Desinfizierung f
• Greek: απολύμανση (el) f (apolýmansi)
• Hungarian: fertőtlenítés (hu)
• Indonesian: desinfeksi (id)
• Italian: disinfezione (it) f
• Japanese: 消毒 (ja) (しょうどく, shōdoku)
• Kazakh: жұқпасыздандыру (jūqpasyzdandyru)
• Korean: 소독(消毒) (ko) (sodok)
• Malay: penyahjangkitan, disinfeksi, pembasmian kuman
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: desinfeksjon m, desinfisering (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: desinfeksjon m, desinfisering f

• Occitan: desinfeccion f
• Polish: dezynfekcja (pl) f
• Portuguese: desinfecção f
• Russian: дезинфе́кция (ru) f (dezinfékcija), обеззара́живание (ru) n (obezzaráživanije)
• Slovak: dezinfekcia f
• Spanish: desinfección (es) f
• Swedish: desinfektion (sv) c
• Tagalog: des-impeksiyon, pagdes-impekta
• Ukrainian: дезінфе́кція f (dezinfékcija), знезара́ження n (znezarážennja), знезара́жування n (znezarážuvannja)
• Vietnamese: sự tẩy uế (vi)