antisepticismn.
/ˌantɪˈsɛptᵻsɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌæn(t)əˈsɛptəˌsɪzəm/ Medicine. Now rare.
Prevention of infection, esp. in a surgical site or superficial wound, by the application of antiseptic agents capable of killing or inhibiting the growth of bacteria and other microorganisms; = antisepsis n.
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antisepticism1869
antisepsis1875
asepticism1880
asepsis1892
1869 Edinb. Med. Jrnl. (1870) 15 132 I have employed carbolic dressing according to the strictest methods of antisepticism in a very large number of cases of operation.
1888 M. Mackenzie Illness Frederick the Noble 109 The Professor of Surgery, in the matter of antisepticism, attended to the letter rather than to the spirit.
1903 Railway Surgeon July 42/2 With the advent of antisepticism.., there was a complete reversal of the statistics, ninety per cent of the patients recovered and ten per cent died.
1999 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 89 125 The evolution from antisepticism to asepticism in British medicine is subtle and a matter of degree.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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