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Definition of Disinfectants
1. disinfectant [n] - See also: disinfectant
Medical Definition of Disinfectants
1. Substances used on inanimate objects that destroy harmful microorganisms or inhibit their activity. Disinfectants are classed as complete, destroying spores as well as vegetative forms of microorganisms, or incomplete, destroying only vegetative forms of the organisms. They are distinguished from antiseptics, which are local anti-infective agents used on humans and other animals. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disinfectants
Literary usage of Disinfectants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of the diseases of the eye: For Students and General Practitioners by Charles Henry May (1901)
"Disinfectants. True disinfectants (capable of destroying germs) cannot be instilled
into the conjunctival sac under ordinary circumstances, since they would ..."
2. A Text-book of Hygiene: A Comprehensive Treatise on the Principles and by George Henry Rohé (1884)
"ANTISEPTICS AND Disinfectants. Much confusion exists in the popular mind and even
... On the other hand, the action of disinfectants is destructive ; they ..."
3. A Manual for Health Officers by Joseph Scott MacNutt (1915)
"The latter has already tested a number of commercial disinfectants, some of which
were found to have little or no value (Bull. no. 82). ..."
4. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1916)
"great accuracy the value and reliability of certain disinfectants which otherwise
... Methods of Standardizing Disinfectants.—Pringle J as early as 1750 ..."
5. A Textbook of pharmacology and therapeutics, or, the Action of drugs in by Arthur Robertson Cushny (1918)
"Peroxide solutions differ from most other disinfectants in the short duration of
... Other Oxidizing Disinfectants. Some older disinfectants also owe their ..."
6. The Popular Science MonthlyScience (1893)
"D. and disinfectants (6 p., 1 il.). W: Eassie, 1: 56. ... Value of
disinfectants (Misc.), 21 : 863. Vegetation as a disinfectant (Misc.), 7 : 380. ..."
7. A Text-book of Hygiene: A Comprehensive Treatise on the Principles and by George Henry Rohé (1884)
"ANTISEPTICS AND Disinfectants. Much confusion exists in the popular mind and even
... On the other hand, the action of disinfectants is destructive ; they ..."
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