Word Meanings - ANTISEPTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A substance which prevents or retards putrefaction, or destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, salt, carbolic acid, alcohol, cinchona.

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• SUBSTANCE
  See 2 (more info) 1. That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real,
• ALCOHOLIC
  Of or pertaining to alcohol, or partaking of its qualities; derived from, or caused by, alcohol; containing alcohol; as, alcoholic mixtures; alcoholic gastritis; alcoholic odor.
• CARBOLIC
  Pertaining to, or designating, an acid derived from coal tar and other sources; as, carbolic acid (called also phenic acid, and phenol). See Phenol.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• ALCOHOLIZATION
  1. The act of reducing a substance to a fine or impalpable powder. Johnson. 2. The act rectifying spirit. 3. Saturation with alcohol; putting the animal system under the influence of alcoholic liquor.
• ALCOHOL
  A class of compounds analogous to vinic alcohol in constitution. Chemically speaking, they are hydroxides of certain organic radicals; as, the radical ethyl forms common or ethyl alcohol ; methyl forms methyl alcohol or wood spirit; amyl forms
• ALCOHOLISM
  A diseased condition of the system, brought about by the continued use of alcoholic liquors.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• CINCHONACEOUS
  Allied or pertaining to cinchona, or to the plants that produce it.
• PUTREFACTIVE
  1. Of or pertaining to putrefaction; as, the putrefactive smell or process. Wiseman. 2. Causing, or tending to promote, putrefaction. -- Pu``tre*fac"tive*ness, n.
• ALCOHOLIZE
  1. To reduce to a fine powder. Johnson. 2. To convert into alcohol; to rectify; also, to saturate with alcohol.
• ALCOHOLATURE
  An alcoholic tincture prepared with fresh plants. New Eng. Dict.
• ALCOHOLOMETER; ALCOHOLMETER
  An instrument for determining the strength of spirits, with a scale graduated so as to indicate the percentage of pure alcohol, either by weight or volume. It is usually a form of hydrometer with a special scale.
• SUBSTANCELESS
  Having no substance; unsubstantial. Coleridge.
• ALCOHOLOMETRIC; ALCOHOLOMETRICAL; ALCOHOLMETRICAL
  Relating to the alcoholometer or alcoholometry. The alcoholometrical strength of spirituous liquors. Ure.
• PUTREFACTION
  1. The act or the process of putrefying; the offensive decay of albuminous or other matter. Note: Putrefaction is a complex phenomenon involving a multiplicity of chemical reactions, always accompanied by, and without doubt caused by, bacteria
• CINCHONA
  A genus of trees growing naturally on the Andes in Peru and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies, producing a medicinal bark of great value. (more info) viceroy of Peru in the seventeenth century, who by its use was freed from
• ALCOHOLATE
  A crystallizable compound of a salt with alcohol, in which the latter plays a part analogous to that of water of crystallization. Graham.
• ALCOHOLOMETRY
  The process or method of ascertaining the proportion of pure alcohol which spirituous liquors contain.
• SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
  The substance of the medullary sheath.
• ANTIPUTREFACTIVE; ANTIPUTRESCENT
  Counteracting, or preserving from, putrefaction; antiseptic.
• AMYL ALCOHOL
  Any of eight isomeric liquid compounds, C5H11OH; ordinarily, a mixture of two of these forming a colorless liquid with a peculiar cough-exciting odor and burning taste, the chief constituent of fusel oil. It is used as a source of amyl compounds,