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Answer for the clue "Sterile ", 7 letters:
aseptic

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Aseptic \A*sep"tic\, n. An aseptic substance.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms; "a sterile operating area"; "aseptic surgical instruments"; "aseptic surgical techniques" [syn: sterile ]

Usage examples of aseptic.

The interview room was warm, drily stale and unused like the aseptic corridors he had followed to reach it.

He saw guards, relaxed though in uniform, armed only with holstered pistols, an officer, and one man in overalls, incongruous as a plumber might have been in those aseptic surroundings.

The secure room of the house, in the attic, was silent and aseptic around him, filled with the ozone smells of electricity and static and charged or burnt dust.

Indeed this whole subject, the virtual anticipation of our nineteenth-century principles of aseptic surgery in the thirteenth century, is not a dream nor a far-fetched explanation when one knows enough about the directions that were laid down in the surgical text-books of that time.

French Hospital, with its up-to-date modern operating theatre for tackling the wounds in a strictly aseptic and scientific way within a few hours of the men being hit, are a tremendous help.

But, of course, there are a great many of the seriously wounded that no amount of aseptic and skilled surgery or nursing can save.

They were its first occupants, and it would be some time before all this aseptic newness had been converted into a warm, human home, The children, doubtless, would catalyze the process rather effectively.

On the wide, shadowless, aseptic surface of the table the raincoat looked out of place, like some jolly, seedy old tramp who has strayed into an operating theatre.

Shelly, aseptic in white jacket and white shirt and white trousers, waved back and drove on into the stadium.

Then the poor man had his leg broken under surgical and aseptic conditions and suffered a considerable amount of dental work.

Remembering what Lorry had told her about the callous secrets hidden behind this aseptic, super-efficient facade, Sena shuddered.

In the operating room the resuscitation team was going through the process of making themselves sterile, putting on their aseptic tunics and gloves and tying their cotton shoes.

Their hair belonged to some middle crinal zone between aseptic nord and latinindian jet-walled lousehouse.

It was aseptic rather than antiseptic, too grey and too drenched with disinfectants for anything to grow, but a grimy, cold little spot for all that.

His dad had included lectures on aseptic technique, that he did remember.