Word Meanings - SEPTICITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Tendency to putrefaction; septic quality.

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• SEPTICITY
  Tendency to putrefaction; septic quality.
• QUALITY
  1. The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank. We lived most joyful, obtaining acquaintance with many of the city not of the meanest
• TENDENCY
  Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result. Writings of this kind, if conducted with candor, have a more particular tendency to the good of their country.
• SEPTICALLY
  In a septic manner; in a manner tending to promote putrefaction.
• SEPTICIDAL
  Dividing the partitions; -- said of a method of dehiscence in which a pod splits through the partitions and is divided into its component carpels.
• SEPTIC
  Of the seventh degree or order. -- n.
• 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
• SEPTIC; SEPTICAL
  Having power to promote putrefaction.
• SEPTICAEMIA
  A poisoned condition of the blood produced by the absorption into it of septic or putrescent material; blood poisoning. It is marked by chills, fever, prostration, and inflammation of the different serous membranes and of the lungs, kidneys, and
• INEQUALITY
  An expression consisting of two unequal quantities, with the sign of inequality between them; as, the inequality 2 < 3, or 4 > 1. (more info) 1. The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity;
• ANTISEPTIC
  A substance which prevents or retards putrefaction, or destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, salt, carbolic acid, alcohol, cinchona.
• EQUALITY
  Exact agreement between two expressions or magnitudes with respect to quantity; -- denoted by the symbol =; thus, a = x signifies that a contains the same number and kind of units of measure that x does. Confessional equality. See under
• COEQUALITY
  The state of being on an equality, as in rank or power.
• ASEPTIC
  Not liable to putrefaction; nonputrescent. -- n.
• ANTISEPTICALLY
  By means of antiseptics.
• ANTISEPTIC; ANTISEPTICAL
  Counteracting or preventing putrefaction, or a putrescent tendency in the system; antiputrefactive. Antiseptic surgery, that system of surgical practice which insists upon a systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the
• SUPERINTENDENCY
  The act of superintending; superintendence. Boyle.