If the wound be aseptic, no suppuration or decomposition takes place beneath it.
They understood the principles of aseptic surgery very well.
Iodine finds extended use in aseptic surgical operations and antiseptic dressings.
Such an operation is an aseptic one, or performed aseptically.
The diet should be aseptic, easily digested, and should contain the necessary food elements.
After this, in an aseptic wound the dressing need not be changed for days.
Nuts are aseptic, free from putrefactive bacteria and do not readily undergo decay either in the body or outside of it.
We shall all forget what aseptic work is by the time we get home.
In an emergency such as this, he had no need for the aseptic niceties characteristic of his profession.
Before the days of aseptic and antiseptic surgery, wounds frequently became infected with luminous bacteria and glowed at night.
aseptic a·sep·tic (ə-sěp'tĭk, ā-)
Of, relating to, or characterized by asepsis.