| 单词 | aseptic |
| 释义 | aseptic (once / 36368 pages) adj If something is aseptic it is sterile, sanitized, or otherwise clean of infectious organisms. Hospitals make every effort to keep operating rooms aseptic so that patients don’t contract infections after surgery. The prefix “a-” almost always means that a word means the opposite of its base. The adjective aseptic, “a-” plus the root “septic,” describes anything that is not septic or is without sepsis. The origin of septic is the Greek word septikos meaning “characterized by putrefaction.” Putrefaction is the rot that happens to flesh after it dies, and when something is aseptic it is free of any rot, filth, bacteria or viruses that could cause disease or death. WORD FAMILYaseptic: aseptically USAGE EXAMPLESThe bright aseptic room smelled of Pine-Sol and bleach and overripe Camembert. New York Times(Jan 18, 2016) Doctors treat the infection with antifungal drugs and slice away the dead flesh, a process rather aseptically termed “debridement”. Scientific American(Jul 28, 2015) But something about the concept of “expressiveness” resonates amid the clean and precise—some would even say aseptic—genre of modern data visualization. National Geographic(Jul 16, 2015) adj free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms aseptic surgical instruments aseptic surgical techniques Syn sterile antiseptic thoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease-causing organisms |
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