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Definition: Aseptic |
AsepticAdjective1. Free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms; "a sterile operating area"; "aseptic surgical instruments"; "aseptic surgical techniques". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Aseptic \A*sep"tic\, adjective. [Prefix a- not septic.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Health | Free from infection or septic material; sterile. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: AsepticSynonym: sterile (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Aseptic |
| Specialty definitions using "aseptic": Coxsackievirus Infections, Coxsackieviruses A, CYTOGENETIC TECHNOLOGIST ♦ Discitis ♦ Echovirus 6, Echovirus 9 ♦ Femur Head Necrosis ♦ Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus ♦ Organ Culture ♦ tissue culture. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Aseptic" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (aseptic), Swedish (asepsis). |
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 | She is creating an aseptic preparation of an amniotic fluid sample for centrifuging. Credit: CDC. |  | Aseptic dispensing of carbohydrate broth. USPHS (United States Public Health Service) Rocky Mountain Laboratory. Hamilton, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Health | Aseptic meningitis or encephalitis. (references) | |
Examples of diseases caused by these viruses are poliomyelitis, aseptic meningitis, and encephalitis. (references) | ||
Although not the cause of the outbreak, LCMV was found to be a cause of aseptic (non-bacterial) meningitis. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Aseptic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 96.97% of the time. "Aseptic" is used about 33 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 96.97% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.03% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 33 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "aseptic": aseptic bursitis ♦ aseptic canning ♦ aseptic surgery. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "aseptic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | asepties. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | steril (sterile), pa mikrobe (sterile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сух (academic, academical, anhydrous, arid, bald, brut, chaffy, chippy, dried, droughty, dry, fleshless, gaunt, hacking, lean, liny, matter of fact, pedestrian, prosy, rainless, sapless, sec, spare, tearless, undamped, uninspired), стерилен (effete, sterile), асептичен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 菌. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sterilní (barren, sterile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | aseptisk (sterile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | aseptisch (sterile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | asepsa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | sóttreinsaður, heilt reinur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ضدعفونی شده , بی گند. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | aseptinen paperi (aseptic paper, medicated paper, sterile paper), aseptinen limapussin tulehdus (aseptic bursitis), virusmeningiitti (aseptic meningitis, viral meningitis), viruksen aiheuttama aivokalvotulehdus (aseptic meningitis, viral meningitis), meningitis aseptica (aseptic meningitis, viral meningitis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | aseptique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | aseptisch (sterile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ασηπτικόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | steril (germless, sterile, sterilized). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tak berhama, sucihama (sterile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | asettico (sterile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 무 (sterility). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | aseptagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | asepticay asséptico. (various references) aseptic, sterilizat. (various references) стерильный (barren, sterile), стерилизованный (sterile, sterilized), асептический. (various references) aseptičan. (various references) aséptico. (various references) aseptisk, bakteriefri (germ-free). (various references) ซึ่งปราศจากเชื้อโรคหรือจุลินทรีย์. (various references) aseptik, steril (sterile, sterilized), mikropsuz (germproof, sterile, sterilized). (various references) стерильний (barren), асептичний. (various references) vô trùng, vô khuẩn, chất vô trùng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | meningitis aseptica, meningitis serosa. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "aseptic": aseptically. (additional references) | |
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"Aseptic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Adeptio, aesectic, aetic, agentic, asceptic, asectic, asetic, aspegic, asperic, aspetic, astetic, Azpeitia, Naspetti. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "aseptic" (pronounced 'A*sep"tic'): Absolutistic, Acatalectic, Acataleptic, Acephalocystic, Acetic, Acherontic, Acroteleutic, Adiaphoristic, Agrestic, Albinistic, Altruistic, Amnestic, Amphiblastic, Amyloplastic, Anacamptic, Anacathartic, Anachronistic, Anaclastic, Anaglyptic, Analectic, Analeptic, Anamnestic, Anapestic, Anaplastic, Anapodeictic, Anastaltic, Anatreptic, Animistic, Annalistic, Antapoplectic, Antarctic, Antephialtic, Antepileptic, Anthelmintic, Antiapoplectic, Anticlastic, Antiephialtic, Antiepileptic, Antigalastic, Antiorgastic, Antiperistaltic, Antiplastic, Antiscorbutic, Antispastic, Antonomastic, Antorgastic, Aoristic, Aortic, Aphlogistic, Aphotic. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: spicate. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: apices, aspect, epacts, pastie, petsai, pietas, septic, spicae. | |
-2 letters: aspic, capes, caste, cates, cesta, cesti, cites, epact, epics, paces, pacts, paise, paste, pates, peats, picas, pieta, piste, pitas, saice, scape, sepia, sepic, septa, space, spait, spate, spica, spice, spite, stipe, taces, tapes, tapis, tepas. | |
-3 letters: aces, acts, aits, apes, apse, asci, ates, cape. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: campiest, campsite, captives, crispate, ectopias, escapist, hepatics, paretics, pastiche, picrates, pistache, practise, septical, spaciest, speciate, spicated, tieclasp. | |
+2 letters: anapestic, cadetship, campsites, cathepsin, chapaties, chapiters, cityscape, copasetic, crappiest, cuspidate, epistatic, escapists, hepaticas, impacters, opacities, operatics, particles, pastiches, patchiest, patencies, patiences, paucities, peachiest, pistaches, pittances, poachiest, practices, practised, practises, scapolite, sceptical, skeptical, spacesuit, specialty, speciated, speciates, spermatic, tieclasps, whitecaps. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 73 65 70 74 69 63 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- ... . .--. - .. -.-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110011 01100101 01110000 01110100 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A s e p t i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0073 0065 0070 0074 0069 0063 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35857182867569 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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