Asepsis

Definition: Asepsis

Asepsis

Noun

1. (of non-living objects) the state of being free of pathogenic organisms.

Date "asepsis" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references)

Etymology: Asepsis \A*sep"sis\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression priv. sepsis.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definition: Asepsis

Domain	Definition
Health	The prevention of access by infecting organisms to the locus of potential infection. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Asepsis

Synonyms: antisepsis (n), sterileness (n), sterility (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Asepsis

Specialty definitions using "asepsis": laboratory assistant ♦ medical technicia, MEDICAL-LABORATORY TECHNICIAN. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Asepsis" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (asepsis), German (asepsis).

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Commercial Usage: Asepsis

Domain	Title
Books	Applied asepsis : a guide for upgrading/designing a salon disease control system (reference) Asepsis, the Right Touch: Something Old Is Now New (reference) Clinical Asepsis in Dentistry (reference) Modern textbook of personal and communal health for nurses: including bacteriology and the principles of asepsis (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Integral Asepsis Forum (reference) (more periodical examples)
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Photo Album: Asepsis

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	A Ships Bay Before The Days Of Ether And Asepsis / G. Ortiz. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Asepsis

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
asepsis	20
medical asepsis	5
asepsis surgical	4
asepsis technique	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Asepsis

Language		Translations for "asepsis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏طهارة (candor, candour, chastity, honor, honour, innocence, prudery, pureness, purgation, purification, purity, refinement, righteousness, saintliness, tidiness, virtue). (various references)

Bulgarian		студен (algid, bleak, bloodless, cold, cool, dead, frigid, frosted, frosty, gelid, iced, icy, impassive, inhuman, raw, repulsive, stony, unapproachable, undersexed, unloving, unresponsive, winterly, wintry). (various references)

Chinese		� 菌法. (various references)

Danish		aseptik. (various references)

Dutch		asepsis. (various references)

French		asepsie (f), asepsie. (various references)

German		Asepsis. (various references)

Greek		ασηψία. (various references)

Hebrew		לא מזו�"ם, לא אלוח, אי אלח. (various references)

Hungarian		fertõtlenítés (decontamination, disinfecting, disinfection, fumigation). (various references)

Italian		asepsi. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		無菌法 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		むき�"ほう. (various references)

Manx		aseptaghys. (various references)

Pig Latin		asepsisay

Portuguese		assepsia (sterilization). (various references)

Russian		асептика. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		asepsa. (various references)

Spanish		asepsia. (various references)

Swedish		aseptik. (various references)

Turkish		asepsi, mikropsuzluk. (various references)

Ukrainian		асептика. (various references)

Vietnamese		sự vô trùng. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Asepsis

Misspellings
	"Asepsis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alepsis, Aseasyas, aspepsis, Galeopsis, Gaseosas, Sarpsis. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Asepsis"

Words rhyming with "asepsis" (pronounced 'A*sep"sis'): Absis, Actinomycosis, Adenosclerosis, AEsthesis, Agennesis, Albuminosis, Amanuensis, Amaurosis, Amitosis, Ampelopsis, Amphiarthrosis, Anacoenosis, Anacrusis, Anadiplosis, Anaesthesis, Anamnesis, Anastomosis, Anemosis, Angioneurosis, Antanaclasis, Anthesis, Anthracosis, Antiptosis, Antipyresis, Antisepsis, Aponeurosis, Aposiopesis, apsis, Archebiosis, Arsis, Arteriosclerosis, Arthrosis, Athetosis, Autokinesis, Auxesis, Basis, Biognosis, Calliopsis, Cardiosclerosis, Cariopsis, Caryopsis, Catachresis, Chemosis, Chlorosis, Chromidrosis, Cillosis, Cirrhosis, Classis, Coenesthesis, Coreopsis. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Asepsis

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: aspises.
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-p-s-s-s"
	-1 letter: passes, pisses, sepias, sepsis, speiss.
	-2 letters: apses, apsis, aspis, asses, paise, pases, passe, sepia, sipes, sises, spaes, spies.
	-3 letters: apes, apse, asps, pase, pass, peas, pias, pies, piss, psis, saps, sass, seas, seis, sipe, sips, spae, spas.
	-4 letters: ais, ape, asp, ass, ess, pas, pea, pes, pia, pie, pis, psi, sae, sap, sea, sei.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-p-s-s-s"
	+1 letter: impasses, passives, pastises.
	+2 letters: apishness, epistases, epistasis, escapisms, escapists, gaposises, misparses, misshapes, misspaces, misspeaks, pastiness, pessaries, psoriases, sappiness, slipcases, soapiness, steapsins.
	+3 letters: alphosises, antisepses, antisepsis, apostasies, aspersions, dispersals, displeases, dispraises, dissipates, dyspepsias, emphasises, epistasies, inspissate, misphrases, palliasses, passerines, passivates, pastelists, patissiers, pingrasses, pipsissewa, preassigns, puissances, snappiness, spaceships, spacesuits, sparsities, splashiest, steamships, swampiness.
	+4 letters: apishnesses, aposiopeses, aposiopesis, apostatises, campinesses, dispersants, disposables, dispraisers, dissipaters, grapinesses, happinesses, inaptnesses, inspissated, inspissates, masterships, messiahship, misemphases, misemphasis, palimpsests, parasitises, parasitoses, passionless, passiveness, passivities, pastellists, pasteurises, pastinesses, patisseries, peristalses, peristalsis, persuasions, pipsissewas, plainnesses, plesiosaurs, prefascists, prussianise, psittacoses, rapidnesses, sappinesses, scrappiness, seamanships, semipostals, separatisms, separatists, shapeliness, shipmasters, slipstreams, soapinesses, spadefishes, speakeasies, spearfishes, specialises, specialisms, specialists, specialness, spessartine, spessartite, splashiness, stripteases, sympathises, trespassing, vapidnesses, vasopressin, waspishness.
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