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Sterilization  n.  (Biol.) The act or process of sterilizing, or rendering sterile; also, the state of being sterile.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... (estimated at 300,000 to 400,000 in the U. S.) Goddard considers segregation of all impracticable. Nevertheless he urges further and energetic efforts in this direction, that as many as possible may be segregated as a safeguard against their reproduction. In individual cases "sterilization wisely and carefully practiced" must be employed to ...
— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10

... as its occurrence in the macroscopic world. If organic matter were first sterilized and then prevented from contamination from without, putrefaction did not occur, and the matter remained free from microbes. The nature of sterilization, and the difficulties in securing it, as well as the extreme delicacy of the manipulations necessary, made it possible for a very long time to be doubtful as to the application of the phrase omne vivum e vivo to the microscopic world, and there still remain a few belated supporters ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia



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