antiseptic
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It found that chlorhexidine, an antiseptic mouthwash, disrupted nitrate processing and reduced gastric nitric oxide synthesis, while dietary nitrate supplementation partly preserved microbial function and nitric oxide related signaling during antiseptic use.
From Science Daily ● May 25, 2026
He’s about to schlep through a 162-game season with them: plane trips, batting practice, 1 a.m. room service steak dinners in antiseptic luxury hotels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026
Amid the rebuke, brands have recoiled back within the antiseptic neutrality where they’re most comfortable: irrelevant celebrity cameos, cheap millennial nostalgia, unmoored wistfulness for simpler days.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2026
While bemoaning the antiseptic, “look, don’t touch” aesthetic of modern cinema, Benedict did find time to tie it to the way we live, saying that the inhumanity of modern homes has crept into our bodies.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2025
She removes the bullet and treats the injury with antiseptic.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
There were no antibiotics to fight infectious diseases, no reliable antiseptics or anesthetics for surgeries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
Garlic extract has been found to offer antimicrobial effects that are on par with commonly used antiseptics and disinfectants such as chlorhexidine, according to medical researchers at the University of Sharjah.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 8, 2025
Les spent long hours in the surgical theater, which in Macclesfield had little in the way of ventilation, and Joy typically found that he came home smelling of anesthetics, antiseptics and blood.
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2024
It sells over-the-counter antiseptics and laxatives, according to court documents.
From Reuters ● May 23, 2023
It may, of course, be chemical, but it looks as if it were organic, since it resists cold, although not heat, and can be destroyed by phenol, toluol, and other antiseptics.
From The Social Gangster by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
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