| slovo | definícia |
sterilize
(encz) | sterilize,sterilizovat v: Zdeněk Brož |
Sterilize
(gcide) | Sterilize \Ster"il*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sterilized; p.
pr. & vb. n. Sterilizing.] [Cf. F. st['e]riliser.]
1. To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land;
to exhaust of fertility. [R.] "Sterilizing the earth."
--Woodward.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Biol.) To deprive of the power of reproducing; to render
incapable of germination or fecundation; to make sterile.
3. (Microbiology, Medicine) To destroy all spores or germs in
(an organic fluid or mixture) or on (a medical
instrument), as by heat, so as to prevent contamination by
bacteria or other organisms. A common method of
sterilization in laboratories and medical facilities is to
heat a liquid sample or an instrument in an autoclave.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
4. To destroy all spores or germs on (a surface) by wetting
with an antiseptic liquid, such as an alcoholic solution.
[PJC] |
sterilize
(wn) | sterilize
v 1: make free from bacteria [syn: sterilize, sterilise]
2: make infertile; "in some countries, people with genetically
transmissible disabilites are sterilized" [syn: sterilize,
sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise,
fix] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
sterilized
(encz) | sterilized,sterilizoval v: Zdeněk Brožsterilized,sterilizovaný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
sterilized intervention
(encz) | sterilized intervention, |
sterilizer
(encz) | sterilizer,sterilizátor n: Zdeněk Brož |
unsterilized
(encz) | unsterilized,nesterilizovaný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Sterilize
(gcide) | Sterilize \Ster"il*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sterilized; p.
pr. & vb. n. Sterilizing.] [Cf. F. st['e]riliser.]
1. To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land;
to exhaust of fertility. [R.] "Sterilizing the earth."
--Woodward.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Biol.) To deprive of the power of reproducing; to render
incapable of germination or fecundation; to make sterile.
3. (Microbiology, Medicine) To destroy all spores or germs in
(an organic fluid or mixture) or on (a medical
instrument), as by heat, so as to prevent contamination by
bacteria or other organisms. A common method of
sterilization in laboratories and medical facilities is to
heat a liquid sample or an instrument in an autoclave.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
4. To destroy all spores or germs on (a surface) by wetting
with an antiseptic liquid, such as an alcoholic solution.
[PJC] |
Sterilized
(gcide) | Sterilize \Ster"il*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sterilized; p.
pr. & vb. n. Sterilizing.] [Cf. F. st['e]riliser.]
1. To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land;
to exhaust of fertility. [R.] "Sterilizing the earth."
--Woodward.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Biol.) To deprive of the power of reproducing; to render
incapable of germination or fecundation; to make sterile.
3. (Microbiology, Medicine) To destroy all spores or germs in
(an organic fluid or mixture) or on (a medical
instrument), as by heat, so as to prevent contamination by
bacteria or other organisms. A common method of
sterilization in laboratories and medical facilities is to
heat a liquid sample or an instrument in an autoclave.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
4. To destroy all spores or germs on (a surface) by wetting
with an antiseptic liquid, such as an alcoholic solution.
[PJC] |
Sterilizer
(gcide) | Sterilizer \Ster"il*i`zer\, n.
One that sterilizes anything; specif., an apparatus for
sterilizing equipment or an organic fluid.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC] |
sterilized
(wn) | sterilized
adj 1: made infertile [syn: sterilized, sterilised] |
sterilizer
(wn) | sterilizer
n 1: a device for heating substances above their boiling point;
used to manufacture chemicals or to sterilize surgical
instruments [syn: autoclave, sterilizer, steriliser] |
unsterilized
(wn) | unsterilized
adj 1: not sterilized [syn: unsterilized, unsterilised] |
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