aseptic

From a- + septic.

• IPA^(key): /əˈsɛptɪk/

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aseptic (not comparable)

1. Free of disease-causing microbes.

   The lack of aseptic tools during surgery has resulted in many deaths.

2. (medicine) Used to protect against infection by disease-causing microbes.

   Pharmaceuticals are packaged using aseptic techniques.

3. (food industry) pasteurised.

• antiseptic
• septic

aseptic (plural aseptics)

1. An antiseptic.

• capites, capsite, paciest, spicate

Borrowed from French aseptique.

aseptic m or n (feminine singular aseptică, masculine plural aseptici, feminine/neuter plural aseptice)

1. aseptic