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antisepticism en · NOUN

Etymology

From antiseptic + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The use of antiseptics.
    • The temperature chart is very interesting, and yet very like that which was not uncommonly seen in both hospital and private surgical practice before the days of antisepticism. 1894, Canadian practitioner, volume 19: