antiseptic

Example Sentences

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In an age before antiseptic, opening up the body almost always led to infection and death.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

Kulumbegashvili’s realist style — the writer-director filmed actual births — emphasizes antiseptic hospital hallways and the cold procedural quality of Nina’s work.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2025

They are not like a hospital: No freezing temperatures, no incessant beeping, no antiseptic odor smell.

From Slate • Apr. 22, 2025

Then, later that day, when Megumi, a relative newbie at the sport, cut her hand on the wall, Gordon jumped in to offer her an antiseptic wipe.

From BBC • Dec. 6, 2024

A doctor bent over the now unconscious Ear and dabbed him with antiseptic.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer