Definition of Sterilises

1. Verb. (third-person singular of sterilise) ¹

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Definition of Sterilises

1. sterilise [v] - See also: sterilise

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sterilises

sterigma
sterigmas
sterigmata
sterigmatum
sterilant
sterilants
sterile
sterilely
sterileness
sterilisation
sterilisations
sterilise
sterilised
steriliser
sterilisers
sterilises (current term)
sterilising
sterilities
sterility
sterilizable
sterilizated
sterilization
sterilizations
sterilize
sterilized
sterilizer
sterilizers
sterilizes
sterilizing
sterino

Literary usage of Sterilises

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"Epidem. Soc. xx. 1901 ; Fraser, Publ. Health, Sept. 1902). It was tried in the Soudan campaign of 1898. 20 parts per million of Br sterilises ..."

2. Treatise on General and Industrial Inorganic Chemistry by Ettore Molinari (1912)
"... that whilst the nitrate sterilises water at a dilution of 1 : 2OO,O и •. the fluoride sterilises it more persistently even at a dilution of 1 : 400000. ..."

3. A Treatise on Hygiene and Public Health by Thomas Stevenson, Shirley Forster Murphy (1898)
"... or of tubercle bacilli, sterilises the spores after an application not lasting more than a minute ; one in a thousand sterilises most though not all ..."

4. Surgery and Society: A Tribute to Listerism by Caleb Williams Saleeby (1912)
"Unlike the rifleman, the aseptic surgeon cleans the patient's skin, mechanically and to some extent chemically, he purifies his own fingers and sterilises ..."

5. Public health laboratory work, including methods employed in bacteriological by Henry Richard Kenwood, Rubert William Boyce (1893)
"A temperature of 170° C. is perhaps the most serviceable heat for most purposes, and maintained for from ten to fifteen minutes effectually sterilises most ..."

6. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"... the instruments which the operator lays in carbolic acid at 5 per cent., or in boiling water, sterilises them again in the flame, and takes notes, &c. ..."

7. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1903)
"... for the tired artist from the clatter of London, a house of the fancy, whence all that jars or wearies or sterilises is resolutely banished. ..."

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