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Webster 1913 Edition
Antiseptical
{
Anˊti-sep′tic
,Anˊti-sep′tic-al
, }Adj.
Counteracting or preventing putrefaction, or a putrescent tendency in the system; antiputrefactive.
Antiseptic surgery
, that system of surgical practice which insists upon a systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the dressing of wounds.