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antisepsis

[an-tuh-sep-sis] / ˌæn təˈsɛp sɪs /


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At the time, Joseph Lister’s pioneering antisepsis work in Britain was known to American doctors.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 27, 2026

But it is troubling that it fails to note the earlier, disregarded discovery of antisepsis by Ignaz Semmelweis.

From Scientific American Feb. 3, 2018

Conan Doyle references Lister's use of carbolic acid for antisepsis in the 1892 story 'The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb', when Watson uses it while dressing a wound.

From Nature Sep. 19, 2017

When she was born there was no anesthesia and no antisepsis, hardly a thermometer, and no oxygen, IVs or antibiotics.

From New York Times Mar. 3, 2014

Complete antisepsis in the surgical sense is, of course, impracticable.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various




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