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Definition of: antisepsis
(an′tə·sep′sis) noun
1. The condition in or method by which a substance, or organism, is kept sterile against the growth of pathogenic or putrefactive bacteria.
2. Listerism.[<NL <ANTI- + Gk. sēpsis putrefaction]
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