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Used to manufacture chemicals or sterilize surgical instruments
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autoclave
Word definitions for autoclave in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An autoclave is a pressure chamber used to sterilize equipment and supplies. Autoclave may also refer to: Autoclave (industrial) , utilized to process parts and materials under pressure, as in curing Waste autoclave , a form of solid waste treatment Autoclave ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1880, from French, literally "self-locking," from auto- "self" (see auto- ) + Latin clavis "key" (see slot (n.2)).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Autoclave \Au"to*clave\, n. [F., fr. Gr. a'yto`s self + L. clavis key.] A kind of French stewpan with a steam-tight lid. --Knight. a device used for sterilizing objects by exposing them to steam at above atmospheric pressure (and thus at a temperature ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A strong, pressurized, heated vessel, as for laboratory experiments, sterilization, cooking or mineral processing. vb. (context transitive English) To sterilize laboratory equipment in an '''autoclave'''.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a device for heating substances above their boiling point; used to manufacture chemicals or to sterilize surgical instruments [syn: sterilizer , steriliser ] v. subject to the action of an autoclave
Usage examples of autoclave.
And a 1200-degree Celsius autoclave for incinerating contaminated equipment and rotting specimens.
The hall was filled with rusting antique apparatus: a centrifuge, an operating table, a wrecked fluoroscope, autoclaves, cases of corroded surgical instruments.
His truman helpers brought him a little pink stain out of the new autoclave.
Placing the scalpels in an autoclave to dry and sterilize, the man removed the gloves, washed his hands very carefully, then dried them on a linen towel.
They entered a windowless room in which there were two plastic chairs and a small autoclave unit that looked as though it had been dropped from a great height.
Lee opened the autoclave and took out a sheaf of papers held together in a torn binder.
Allen sighed, kicked his worn crepe heels against the autoclave for a moment.
Staff Nurse Cross, bless her, had everything ready, and she still had ten minutes in which to sort the special instruments which had been delivered to her office, get them into the autoclave, and scrub up.
The seats in a jet, the furniture in a hotel room, aren't autoclaved too often.
They bundled Kirk into the decompression chamber as though they were doing nothing more interesting than autoclaving a rack of test tubes.
As I've told you, now is a time for final mop-ups, for sterilization and autoclaving, for eliminating any evidence that might point to them.
Mihir wasn't the greatest actor, but the bicycle shop with its autoclaves and catalytic bonders was incredibly useful.
A nurse waited in the hall, and she briskly walked me past the surgery room, then walls of autoclaves that reminded me of steel diving bells, the air foul with the stench of scalded laboratory animals.
Matthews was conferring with a student who, I gathered as I heard them talk, was using cobalt instead of an autoclave to sterilize micropipettes used for in vitro fertilization.
He glanced around the room and found a small autoclave for sterilizing instruments.