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Sterilised

adjective
1.
Made infertile.  Synonym: sterilized.






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"Sterilised" Quotes from Famous Books



... now reached the kitchen again. The student had also brought down to Kennedy a number of sterilised microscope slides and test- tubes, and from here and there in the masses of blood spots Kennedy was taking and preserving samples. He also took samples of the various foods, which he preserved ...
— The Dream Doctor • Arthur B. Reeve

... nothing except itself. It glows in my memory like some bright casual flower starting up amidst the debris of a catastrophe. For nearly a fortnight we two met and made love together. Once more this mighty passion, that our aimless civilisation has fettered and maimed and sterilised and debased, gripped me and filled me with passionate delights and solemn joys—that were all, you know, futile and purposeless. Once more I had the persuasion "This matters. Nothing else matters so much as this." We were both infinitely grave ...
— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells

... water to the boil, keeping it so for twenty minutes. If the milk is kept covered, and rapidly cooled by placing in another pan of cold water, but little boiled taste will be felt. Sometimes, however, sterilised milk disagrees with an infant; if so, the strictest watch must be kept on the history ...
— Papers on Health • John Kirk



Words linked to "Sterilised" :   infertile, unfertile, sterile



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