Definition of Putrefactive

1. Adjective. Causing or promoting bacterial putrefaction.

Exact synonyms: Putrefacient
Similar to: Infected, Septic
Derivative terms: Putrefy, Putrefy

Definition of Putrefactive

1. a. Of or pertaining to putrefaction; as, the putrefactive smell or process.

Definition of Putrefactive

1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or causing putrefaction ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Putrefactive

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Putrefactive

putoffs
putois
puton
putonghua
putonghuas
putons
putoranite
putour
putours
putout
putouts
putredinous
putrefacient
putrefaction
putrefactions
putrefactive (current term)
putrefactiveness
putrefiable
putrefied
putrefier
putrefiers
putrefies
putrefy
putrefying
putrescence
putrescences
putrescene
putrescenes
putrescent
putrescently

Literary usage of Putrefactive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of Chemistry: Including the Recent Discoveries and Doctrines of the by Edward Turner (1835)
"putrefactive Fermentation. By this term is implied a process which is not attended with the phenomena of the saccharine, vinous, or acetous fermentation, ..."

2. A Compendium of the Course of Chemical Instruction in the Medical Department by Robert Hare (1828)
"OF THE putrefactive FERMENTATION. To that species of spontaneous ... In no instance is either the vinous, acetous, or putrefactive fermentation induced, ..."

3. The Common Bacterial Infections of the Digestive Tract and the Intoxications by Christian Archibald Herter (1907)
"THE FERMENTATIVE AND putrefactive PROCESSES FROM THE. STANDPOINT OF THEIR PRODUCTS IT is helpful to review the fermentative and putrefactive processes in ..."

4. Intestinal Auto-intoxication by Adolphe Combe, Albert Fournier, William Gaynor States (1908)
"The first are the putrefactive aliments, the second the ... To diminish in the regimen and in as great a measure as possible the putrefactive aliments, ..."

5. A Text-book of Legal Medicine and Toxicology by Walter Stanley Haines (1904)
"SOME PROPOSED METHODS OF SEPARATING VEGETABLE ALKALOIDS FROM putrefactive PRODUCTS. The difficulties detailed in the preceding pages have led to numerous ..."

6. System of Theoretical and Practical Chemistry by Friedrich Christian Accum (1808)
"putrefactive FERMENTATION. When the spontaneous decomposition of vegetable ... This decomposition is putrefactive fermentation: its properties are more ..."

7. Soils: Their Formation, Properties, Composition, and Relations to Climate by Eugene Woldemar Hilgard (1921)
"putrefactive Processes.—Carbonic gas is formed also, but to a much more limited extent, in putrefactive processes, occurring in the absence, ..."

8. Soils: Their Formation, Properties, Composition, and Relations to Climate by Eugene Woldemar Hilgard (1906)
"putrefactive Processes.—Carbonic gas is formed also, but to a much more limited extent, in putrefactive processes, occurring in the absence, ..."

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