(biology) decaying caused by bacterial or fungal action

Usage examples of putrefaction.

Not only is it an alterative and a nutritive restorative, acting upon the secretions, but it opposes putrefaction and degenerative decay of the fluids and solids.

Despite the odour of putrefaction, Bas was pacing along the curving length of the dead reptile.

Sir, putrefaction, Solution, ablution, sublimation, Cohobation, calcination, ceration, and Fixation.

Initial decay, putrefaction, black putrefaction, butyric putrefaction, and dry decay.

It is almost impossible to get them strong enough to have any real effect in checking putrefaction of the food or diseases of the gums, without making them too irritating or poisonous.

Mmmhmmm, sweet fishy rancidness, mmhmm, sour cheesy putrefaction, mmHMMM taste that decay, mmHmMM?

Now that it was in the deep darkness of the cave, the creature was shining brightly with its own internally generated light This was not the phosphorescence of putrefaction, but a deeply originated glow which shone through the deep and waxlike skin and hinted of luminous reactions unconnected with bioluminescence.

Those faceless discords, out of nature strayed, Rank of the putrefaction ere decayed, In impious singles bear the thorny wreaths: Their lives are where harmonious Pleasure breathes For couples crowned with flowers that burn in dew.

He coughed, blinking back the stinging aftertaste of putrefaction that made his eyes water and his tongue turn dry.

This the obscure artist calls conjunction, sublimation, assation, extraction, putrefaction, ligation, desponsation, subtilization, generation, etc.

The homunculus was becoming loose and flabby, collapsing in on itself in dreadful, high-speed putrefaction.

With it came the stink of my own putrefaction, my bowels voiding as I thrashed to the ground, the lunatic ringing of cicadas in my head as the high D of blood whined in my constricting vessels.

We scraped it with fish sealers to get the deep-sea shark suckers off, we washed it down with creolin and rock salt to fix up the marks of putrefaction, we powdered his face with starch to hide the burlap repairs and paraffin stuffing that we had to use to restore the face that had been pecked away by dungheap birds, we gave him back the color of life with woman's rouge and üpstick, but not even the glass eyes stuck into the empty sockets could give him the stamp of authority he needed if we were to put him on display for the masses.

A columbarium, or hatchery of some sort, dark and reeking of decay, putrefaction and gangrene-a birthing center for monsters.

Bad as was parching under the burning sun whose fiery rays bred miasma and putrefaction, it was still not so bad as having one's life chilled out by exposure in nakedness upon the frozen ground to biting winds and freezing sleet.