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septic

adjective as in inflamed

adjective as in toxic

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Reports that the bodies of the children had been ‘dumped’ in a septic tank have, however, proved to be wide of the mark.

I'm talking about what's called biogas, produced by treating the septic tanks attached to toilets.

When Pope John Paul II died of septic shock and heart failure, in April 2005, he was 84.

That terrible attack of septic pneumonia in New York, as we now know, left the heart injured and the lungs weakened.

Think, Gentlemen, of a child in the last stages of septic peritonitis, practically dead.

Of all the anti-septic agents used for the purposes mentioned boracic acid is the favorite, and salicylic acid next in choice.

Various other anti-septic agents are used and combined in different ways, according to the results of experiments.

It lays the orbit open to the possibility of septic infection.

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