Exact Match:
- aseptic
- free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms; "a sterile operating area"; "aseptic surgical instruments"; "aseptic surgical techniques"
Synonyms:
- no synonyms found
Related Words:
- hygienic
collapse - tending to promote or preserve health; "hygienic habits like using disposable tissues"; "hygienic surroundings with plenty of fresh air" related words >
- antiseptic,
- aseptic,
- beneficial,
- benign,
- boiled,
- bracing,
- clean,
- constitutional,
- decontaminated,
- disinfected,
- good,
- good for,
- health-enhancing,
- health-preserving,
- healthful,
- healthy,
- hygeian,
- invigorating,
- pasteurized,
- prophylactic,
- pure,
- refreshing,
- salubrious,
- salutary,
- sanitary,
- sterile,
- sterilized,
- tonic,
- uninfected,
- wholesome
- sanitary
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- free from filth and pathogens; "sanitary conditions for preparing food"; "a sanitary washroom" related words >
- antiseptic,
- aseptic,
- beneficial,
- benign,
- boiled,
- bracing,
- clean,
- constitutional,
- decontaminated,
- disinfected,
- good,
- good for,
- health-enhancing,
- health-preserving,
- healthful,
- healthy,
- hygeian,
- hygienic,
- invigorating,
- pasteurized,
- prophylactic,
- refreshing,
- salubrious,
- salutary,
- sterile,
- sterilized,
- tonic,
- uninfected,
- unpolluted,
- wholesome
- prosthetics
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- the branch of medicine dealing with the production and use of artificial body parts related words >
- antiseptic surgery,
- aseptic surgery,
- chiroplasty,
- cryosurgery,
- dental surgery,
- electrosurgery,
- general surgery,
- heart surgery,
- major surgery,
- minor surgery,
- neurosurgery,
- open-heart surgery,
- operation,
- operative surgery,
- oral surgery,
- organ transplantation,
- orthopedic surgery,
- plastic surgery,
- radiosurgery,
- reconstructive surgery,
- reparative surgery,
- surgery,
- thoracic surgery,
- urological surgery,
- veterinary surgery
- plastic surgery
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- surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic reformation of tissue related words >
- antiseptic surgery,
- aseptic surgery,
- balanoplasty,
- batrachoplasty,
- blepharoplasty,
- bronchoplasty,
- canthoplasty,
- chiroplasty,
- colpoplasty,
- cosmetic operation,
- cryosurgery,
- cystoplasty,
- dental surgery,
- electrosurgery,
- general surgery,
- genyoplasty,
- heart surgery,
- heteroplasty,
- labioplasty,
- major surgery,
- mammilloplasty,
- minor surgery,
- neurosurgery,
- open-heart surgery,
- operation,
- operative surgery,
- oral surgery,
- organ transplantation,
- orthopedic surgery,
- otoplasty,
- plastic operation,
- prosthetics,
- radiosurgery,
- reconstructive operation,
- reconstructive surgery,
- reparative surgery,
- rhinoplasty,
- surgery,
- thoracic surgery,
- urological surgery,
- veterinary surgery
- undemonstrative
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- not given to open expression of emotion related words >
- Olympian,
- actual,
- aloof,
- aseptic,
- backward,
- bashful,
- blank,
- chill,
- chilled,
- chilly,
- cold,
- constrained,
- cool,
- detached,
- discreet,
- distant,
- emotionless,
- expressionless,
- forbidding,
- frigid,
- frosty,
- glacial,
- guarded,
- icy,
- impassive,
- impersonal,
- inaccessible,
- incontestable,
- incontrovertible,
- indifferent,
- indisputable,
- indubitable,
- introverted,
- modest,
- offish,
- real,
- remote,
- removed,
- repressed,
- reserved,
- restrained,
- reticent,
- retiring,
- shrinking,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- subdued,
- suppressed,
- true,
- unaffable,
- unapproachable,
- uncongenial,
- uncontestable,
- undeniable,
- unemotional,
- unequivocal,
- unexpansive,
- ungenial,
- uninterested,
- unquestionable,
- veridical,
- withdrawn
- antiseptic
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- a substance that destroys micro-organisms that carry disease without harming body tissues
- (extended sense) of exceptionally clean language; "lyrics as antiseptic as Sunday School"
- clean and honest; "antiseptic financial practices"
- thoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease-causing organisms; "doctors in antiseptic green coats"; "the antiseptic effect of alcohol"; "it is said that marjoram has antiseptic qualities"
- made free from live bacteria or other microorganisms; "sterilized instruments"
- freeing from error or corruption; "the antiseptic effect of sturdy criticism" related words >
- Argyrol,
- Mercurochrome,
- Merthiolate,
- Salol,
- acaricide,
- alcohol,
- anthelmintic,
- antibiotic,
- aseptic,
- bactericide,
- boiled,
- boric acid,
- bug bomb,
- calomel,
- camphor,
- carbamate insecticide,
- carbolic acid,
- chemosterilant,
- chloramine,
- chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticide,
- contact poison,
- cresol,
- decontaminated,
- defoliant,
- disinfectant,
- disinfected,
- eradicant,
- fumigant,
- fumigator,
- fungicide,
- gentian violet,
- germicidal,
- germicide,
- gramicidin,
- herbicide,
- hexachloraphene,
- hydrogen peroxide,
- hygienic,
- insect powder,
- insecticide,
- iodine,
- microbicide,
- miticide,
- organic chlorine,
- organic phosphate insecticide,
- pasteurized,
- peroxide,
- pesticide,
- phenol,
- phenyl salicylate,
- poison,
- prophylactic,
- rat poison,
- resorcinol,
- roach paste,
- roach powder,
- rodenticide,
- sanitary,
- silver vitellin,
- sterile,
- sterilized,
- stomach poison,
- systemic,
- systemic insecticide,
- thimerosal,
- thymol,
- tincture of iodine,
- toxic,
- toxicant,
- toxin,
- uninfected,
- venin,
- venom,
- vermicide,
- virus,
- weed killer
- surgery
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- a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted; "he read the warning in the doctor's surgery"
- the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures; "he is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School" related words >
- X ray,
- abscission,
- amputation,
- antiseptic surgery,
- aseptic surgery,
- blood bank,
- bloodless surgery,
- butchering,
- cauterization,
- cautery,
- charity ward,
- chiroplasty,
- chopping,
- cleavage,
- clinic,
- consultation room,
- cryosurgery,
- cutting,
- delivery room,
- dental surgery,
- dichotomy,
- dispensary,
- electrocautery,
- electrolysis,
- electrolyzation,
- electroresection,
- electrosurgery,
- emergency,
- enucleation,
- examining room,
- excision,
- fever ward,
- fission,
- general surgery,
- heart surgery,
- hospital room,
- intensive care,
- isolation,
- labor room,
- laboratory,
- laceration,
- laser surgery,
- major surgery,
- maternity ward,
- minor surgery,
- mutilation,
- neurosurgery,
- nursery,
- open-heart surgery,
- operating room,
- operation,
- operative surgery,
- oral surgery,
- organ transplantation,
- orthopedic surgery,
- pharmacy,
- plastic surgery,
- prison ward,
- private room,
- prosthetics,
- radiosurgery,
- reconstructive surgery,
- recovery room,
- rending,
- reparative surgery,
- resection,
- ripping,
- scission,
- section,
- semi-private room,
- severance,
- slashing,
- slicing,
- splitting,
- surgical diathermy,
- surgical treatment,
- tearing,
- therapy,
- thoracic surgery,
- treatment room,
- urological surgery,
- veterinary surgery,
- ward
- retiring
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- not arrogant or presuming; "unassuming to a fault, skeptical about the value of his work"; "a shy retiring girl" related words >
- Olympian,
- aloof,
- aseptic,
- backward,
- bashful,
- blank,
- boat-shaped,
- boatlike,
- bowl-shaped,
- bowllike,
- cavelike,
- cavernous,
- chilled,
- chilly,
- cold,
- concave,
- concaved,
- constrained,
- cool,
- coy,
- craterlike,
- cup-shaped,
- cupped,
- cymbiform,
- declining,
- demure,
- detached,
- diffident,
- diminishing,
- discreet,
- dish-shaped,
- dished,
- dishing,
- dishlike,
- distant,
- dwindling,
- dying,
- ebbing,
- expressionless,
- fading,
- forbidding,
- frigid,
- frosty,
- funnel-breasted,
- funnel-chested,
- funnel-shaped,
- guarded,
- hollow,
- hollowed,
- humble,
- icy,
- impassive,
- impersonal,
- inaccessible,
- incurved,
- incurving,
- incurvous,
- infundibular,
- infundibuliform,
- introverted,
- meek,
- modest,
- navicular,
- naviform,
- offish,
- quiet,
- rabbity,
- receding,
- reclusive,
- remote,
- removed,
- repressed,
- reserved,
- restrained,
- reticent,
- retreating,
- saucer-shaped,
- scaphoid,
- scyphate,
- self-effacing,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- sinking,
- spoonlike,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- subdued,
- sunk,
- sunken,
- suppressed,
- timid,
- timorous,
- unaffable,
- unapproachable,
- unassertive,
- unassuming,
- unassured,
- uncongenial,
- undemonstrative,
- unexpansive,
- ungenial,
- unpretentious,
- unsociable,
- unsocial,
- waning,
- withdrawn
- shrinking
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- the act of becoming less
- process or result of becoming less or smaller; "the material lost 2 inches per yard in shrinkage" related words >
- Olympian,
- Sanforizing,
- aloof,
- aseptic,
- atrophy,
- attenuation,
- backward,
- bashful,
- bashfulness,
- blank,
- boggle,
- boggling,
- chilled,
- chilly,
- cold,
- compunction,
- constrained,
- consumption,
- cool,
- cowardly,
- declining,
- demur,
- demurral,
- demurring,
- detached,
- diffidence,
- diffident,
- diminishing,
- discreet,
- distant,
- drying,
- drying up,
- dwindling,
- dying,
- ebbing,
- emaceration,
- emaciation,
- expressionless,
- fading,
- falter,
- faltering,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- forbidding,
- frigid,
- frosty,
- goosy,
- guarded,
- hesitance,
- hesitancy,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- hesitation,
- icy,
- impassive,
- impersonal,
- in fear,
- inaccessible,
- introverted,
- jumpy,
- modest,
- modesty,
- mousy,
- nervous,
- objection,
- offish,
- parching,
- pause,
- preshrinkage,
- protest,
- qualm,
- qualm of conscience,
- qualmish,
- qualmishness,
- quiet,
- rabbity,
- receding,
- recoil,
- remote,
- removed,
- repressed,
- reserved,
- restrained,
- reticent,
- retiring,
- retreating,
- scary,
- scruple,
- scrupulosity,
- scrupulous,
- scrupulousness,
- searing,
- shaky,
- shivery,
- shrinkage,
- shriveling,
- shy,
- shyness,
- sinking,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- squeamish,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- startlish,
- stickling,
- subdued,
- suppressed,
- thinning,
- timid,
- timorous,
- trembling,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- unaffable,
- unapproachable,
- uncongenial,
- undemonstrative,
- unexpansive,
- ungenial,
- waning,
- wasting,
- withdrawn,
- withering
- Laodicean,
- Olympian,
- alienated,
- alone,
- aloof,
- anonymous,
- apart,
- apathetic,
- aseptic,
- backward,
- bashful,
- benumbed,
- blah,
- blank,
- blase,
- bored,
- careless,
- casual,
- chilled,
- chilly,
- closet,
- cold,
- comatose,
- companionless,
- constrained,
- cool,
- desensitized,
- detached,
- discreet,
- disinterested,
- distant,
- dull,
- exclusive,
- expressionless,
- forbidding,
- friendless,
- frigid,
- frosty,
- guarded,
- heartless,
- hebetudinous,
- heedless,
- homeless,
- hopeless,
- icy,
- impassive,
- impersonal,
- in a backwater,
- in a stupor,
- inaccessible,
- incognito,
- incurious,
- indifferent,
- inmost,
- innermost,
- insociable,
- insouciant,
- insular,
- interior,
- intimate,
- introverted,
- inward,
- isolated,
- kithless,
- languid,
- lethargic,
- listless,
- lone,
- lonely,
- lonesome,
- mindless,
- modest,
- nonchalant,
- numb,
- numbed,
- offish,
- out-of-the-way,
- out-of-the-world,
- passive,
- personal,
- phlegmatic,
- pluckless,
- private,
- privy,
- quarantined,
- regardless,
- remote,
- removed,
- repressed,
- reserved,
- resigned,
- restrained,
- reticent,
- retired,
- retiring,
- rootless,
- secluded,
- seclusive,
- segregated,
- separate,
- separated,
- sequestered,
- shrinking,
- shut off,
- single-handed,
- slack,
- sluggish,
- solitary,
- solo,
- soporific,
- spiritless,
- spunkless,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- stoic,
- stolid,
- stupefied,
- subdued,
- supine,
- suppressed,
- torpid,
- unabetted,
- unaccompanied,
- unaffable,
- unaided,
- unapproachable,
- unassisted,
- unattended,
- uncaring,
- uncompanionable,
- unconcerned,
- uncongenial,
- undemonstrative,
- unescorted,
- unexpansive,
- unfrequented,
- ungenial,
- uninquiring,
- uninterested,
- uninvolved,
- unmindful,
- unseconded,
- unsupported,
- unvisited
- sterile
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- deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention; "a sterile ideology lacking in originality"; "unimaginative development of a musical theme"; "uninspired writing"
- incapable of reproducing; "an infertile couple" related words >
- abortive,
- acarpous,
- antiseptic,
- arid,
- aseptic,
- bare,
- barren,
- blah,
- blank,
- bloodless,
- boiled,
- bootless,
- celibate,
- characterless,
- childless,
- cold,
- colorless,
- counterproductive,
- dead,
- decontaminated,
- desert,
- desolate,
- disinfected,
- dismal,
- draggy,
- drained,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dried-up,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- exhausted,
- fade,
- fallow,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- feckless,
- flat,
- fruitless,
- futile,
- gainless,
- gaunt,
- gelded,
- heavy,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- hygienic,
- impotent,
- inadequate,
- inane,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inexcitable,
- infecund,
- infertile,
- inoperative,
- insipid,
- invalid,
- issueless,
- jejune,
- leached,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- low-spirited,
- menopausal,
- noncreative,
- nonfertile,
- nonproducing,
- nonproductive,
- nonprolific,
- nonremunerative,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- of no force,
- otiose,
- pale,
- pallid,
- pasteurized,
- pedestrian,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- profitless,
- prophylactic,
- pure,
- rewardless,
- sanitary,
- sine prole,
- slow,
- solemn,
- spiritless,
- stale,
- sterilized,
- stiff,
- stodgy,
- stuffy,
- sucked dry,
- superficial,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- teemless,
- unavailing,
- uncontaminated,
- uncreative,
- uncultivated,
- unfertile,
- unfruitful,
- uninfected,
- uninspired,
- uninventive,
- unlively,
- unplowed,
- unpolluted,
- unproductive,
- unprofitable,
- unprolific,
- unremunerative,
- unrewarding,
- unsown,
- untilled,
- useless,
- vain,
- vapid,
- virgin,
- waste,
- wasted,
- without issue,
- wooden,
- worn-out
- IUD,
- aegis,
- antacid,
- antidote,
- antiseptic,
- arm guard,
- aseptic,
- backstop,
- bag,
- birth control device,
- boiled,
- buffer,
- bulwark,
- bumper,
- condom,
- contraceptive,
- contraceptive foam,
- copyright,
- counteractant,
- counteractive,
- counteragent,
- counterirritant,
- covering,
- crash helmet,
- cushion,
- custodial,
- dashboard,
- decontaminated,
- defensive,
- deterrent,
- deterring,
- diaphragm,
- discouraging,
- disinfected,
- dodger,
- face mask,
- fender,
- finger guard,
- foot guard,
- forbidding,
- forestalling,
- fostering,
- fuse,
- goggles,
- governor,
- guard,
- guardian,
- guarding,
- guardrail,
- hand guard,
- handrail,
- hard hat,
- helmet,
- hygienic,
- immunizing,
- insulation,
- interlock,
- intrauterine device,
- knee guard,
- knuckle guard,
- laminated glass,
- life preserver,
- lifeline,
- lightning conductor,
- lightning rod,
- mask,
- mudguard,
- neutralizer,
- nose guard,
- nullifier,
- offset,
- oral contraceptive,
- pad,
- padding,
- palladium,
- parental,
- pasteurized,
- patent,
- pessary,
- pilot,
- preclusive,
- preventative,
- preventive,
- prohibitive,
- protecting,
- protective,
- protective clothing,
- protective umbrella,
- remedy,
- rubber,
- safeguard,
- safeguarding,
- safety,
- safety glass,
- safety plug,
- safety rail,
- safety shoes,
- safety switch,
- safety valve,
- sanitary,
- screen,
- screening,
- seat belt,
- sheltering,
- shield,
- shielding,
- shin guard,
- skin,
- spermicidal jelly,
- spermicide,
- sterile,
- sterilized,
- sun helmet,
- the pill,
- tutelary,
- umbrella,
- uninfected,
- vigilant,
- watchful,
- windscreen,
- windshield
- restrained
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- under restraint related words >
- Attic,
- Ciceronian,
- Olympian,
- aesthetic,
- aloof,
- arrested,
- artistic,
- aseptic,
- backward,
- barred,
- bashful,
- beleaguered,
- beset,
- besieged,
- blank,
- blockaded,
- bound,
- bridled,
- cabined,
- caged,
- chaste,
- chastened,
- chilled,
- chilly,
- choice,
- classic,
- clear,
- cloistered,
- closed-in,
- cold,
- confined,
- constrained,
- controlled,
- cool,
- cooped,
- cordoned,
- cordoned off,
- corralled,
- cramped,
- cribbed,
- curbed,
- detached,
- direct,
- discreet,
- distant,
- easy,
- elegant,
- enclosed,
- excellent,
- expressionless,
- fenced,
- finished,
- forbidding,
- frigid,
- frosty,
- frugal,
- graceful,
- gracile,
- guarded,
- hedged,
- hemmed,
- hushed,
- icy,
- immured,
- impassive,
- impersonal,
- imprisoned,
- in check,
- in control,
- in good taste,
- in hand,
- in leading strings,
- in remission,
- inaccessible,
- incarcerated,
- incommunicable,
- inhibited,
- introverted,
- jailed,
- leaguered,
- limited,
- limpid,
- lucid,
- measured,
- mewed,
- moderate,
- modest,
- natural,
- neat,
- noncommittal,
- of choice,
- of quality,
- offish,
- on leash,
- paled,
- pellucid,
- penned,
- pent-up,
- perspicuous,
- plain,
- pleasing,
- polished,
- pure,
- quarantined,
- quelled,
- quiet,
- railed,
- reasonable,
- refined,
- remote,
- removed,
- repressed,
- reserved,
- retarded,
- reticent,
- retiring,
- round,
- shrinking,
- shut-in,
- simple,
- slowed down,
- sober,
- softened,
- sparing,
- stable,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- stinting,
- straightforward,
- subdued,
- suppressed,
- tasteful,
- tasty,
- temperate,
- tempered,
- terse,
- trim,
- unaffable,
- unaffected,
- unapproachable,
- uncongenial,
- undemonstrative,
- under control,
- under discipline,
- under restraint,
- understated,
- unexcessive,
- unexpansive,
- unextreme,
- ungenial,
- unlabored,
- unobtrusive,
- walled,
- walled-in,
- well-chosen,
- withdrawn
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