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Putrefactive

adjective
1.
Causing or promoting bacterial putrefaction.  Synonym: putrefacient.






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"Putrefactive" Quotes from Famous Books



... abundance, which mud is continually settling out of the water as opportunity offers, and with this settlement of mud there occurs also the settlement of the germs. Also the pathogenic or disease-producing germs are usually weaker and more susceptible than the putrefactive and other organisms which are found in the water in great abundance after any rain storm, and which tend to inhibit or destroy the pathogenic germs. But some will survive, and, with favoring conditions, may pass through the water-pipe to the house, causing ...
— Rural Hygiene • Henry N. Ogden

... gangrene, and putrefactive changes, or in some instances, from the ulcerative process, so constantly observed in the segregation of dead from living tissues. Abscesses are not infrequently found in different parts of the lungs. Sometimes circumscribed, ...
— Cattle and Their Diseases • Robert Jennings



Words linked to "Putrefactive" :   septic, infected, putrefacient, putrefy



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