Antiseptic

(noun.) a substance that destroys micro-organisms that carry disease without harming body tissues.

(adj.) devoid of objectionable language; 'lyrics as antiseptic as Sunday School' .

(adj.) clean and honest; 'antiseptic financial practices' .

(adj.) thoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease-causing organisms; 'doctors in antiseptic green coats'; 'the antiseptic effect of alcohol'; 'it is said that marjoram has antiseptic qualities' .

(adj.) freeing from error or corruption; 'the antiseptic effect of sturdy criticism' .

校对:莱斯利

• Like considerations would apply to railways, antiseptic surgery, or friction matches. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The antiseptic treatment of wounds, by which the long and exhausting suppuration is avoided, is among the most notable of the latter. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Out of the knowledge of disease germs has grown the great era of antiseptic surgery, inaugurated by Sir Joseph Lister, about 1865. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• They understood the virtue of extreme dryness in the exercise of their antiseptic art. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

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