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sterile

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Complete with 348 items, organized neatly into 20 inner compartments, you’ll get a comprehensive kit including 28 sting relief pads, 10 large sterile gauze pads, and one emergency glow stick.

Equipped with 130 items, you’ll get 50 adhesive bandages, an instant cold press, and a sterile eye pad.

This decidedly non-invasive diagnostic simply requires a spit sample that can be collected in a sterile container.

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They had been home with their families for so long in what can be a socially sterile environment.

We went from the availability of one dose of the drug in 1941, to four million sterile packages of the drug every month four years later.

In reality,” Francis said, “theatrical severity and sterile pessimism are often symptoms of fear and insecurity.

Koenig has not been a sterile, objective narrator; she has openly voiced her biases, concerns, and gut feelings all along.

“Nonsterile gloves and sterile obstetric and surgical gloves were depleted or absent in all four counties,” the report reads.

Though she portrays the Gulf Coast city as sterile, she also writes about it as a kind of haven.

Birenbaum-Carmeli also points to technology that means even a near-sterile man can now be assisted to impregnate his wife.

The letter was the swift and desperate sequel to several days' absolutely sterile reflection.

Human milk is sterile when secreted, but derives a few bacteria from the lacteal ducts.

Sterile, dissipated and prodigal, she made her husband very unhappy, thus avenging the first Mme. Brunner.

This country was so cold and sterile and unpropitious that winter predominated, and it was difficult to support life.

The country which they passed through was sterile in the extreme, and the expedition proved a failure.

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On this page you'll find 75 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sterile, such as: antiseptic, arid, barren, bleak, desolate, and futile.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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