Word Finder - aseptic

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Free of disease-causing microbes.

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The lack of aseptic tools during surgery has resulted in many deaths.

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Used to protect against infection by disease-causing microbes.

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Pharmaceuticals are packaged using aseptic techniques.

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(food industry) pasteurised.

If the dead part be protected from the ingress of putrefactive organisms, however, it separates from that which is living without the ordinary evidences of gangrene, and is then known as an " aseptic slough."

Recent work has shown it is too feeble to be relied upon alone, but where really efficient antiseptics, such as mercuric chloride and iodide, and carbolic acid, have been already employed, boracic acid (which, unlike these, is non-poisonous and non-irritant) may legitimately be used to maintain the aseptic or non-bacterial condition which they have obtained.

Administration is by subcutaneous injection preferably in the loose skin on the side of the neck, observing aseptic precautions.

Conventional aseptic filling would be eliminated due to the risks involved and existing medicaments would be terminally sterilized, using new methods.

Not only is the influence of bacteria in the causation of many of them newly revealed, but it is now recognized also that, even in skin diseases not initiated by microbic action, microbes play a considerable and often a determining part in their perpetuation; and that the rules of modern aseptic surgery are applicable with no little success to skin therapeutics.

The term aseptic is used to differentiate this type of meningitis from those caused by bacteria.

Using a long, thin needle inserted into the lower back to withdraw spinal fluid (lumbar puncture) will reveal increased white blood cells and no bacteria (aseptic meningitis).

Nonparalytic poliomyelitis cannot be distinguished clinically from aseptic meningitis due to other agents.

When poliovirus causes only the minor illness or simple aseptic meningitis, the patient can be expected to recover completely.

For this reason, aseptic technique must be followed strictly, and a lumbar puncture should never be performed at the site of a localized skin lesion.

A second study in Finland showed that the vaccine is also not associated with aseptic meningitis or encephalitis.

Some extreme complications can occur with this common childhood disease, including Aseptic meningitis and encephalitis.

Hence it is that the "antiseptic" method has been replaced in the surgery of to-day by the "aseptic" method (see Surgery), which relies on keeping free from the invasion of bacteria rather than destroying them when present.

The surgical procedure for the treatment of an open wound is - (r) arrest of haemorrhage; (2) cleansing of the wound and removal of any foreign bodies; (3) careful apposition of its edges and surfaces - the edges being best brought in contact by sutures of aseptic silk or catgut, the surfaces by carefully applied pressure; (4) free drainage, if necessary, to prevent accumulation either of blood or serous effusion; (5) avoidance of sepsis; (6) perfect rest of the part.

This syndrome is called aseptic meningitis.