单词 | antisepticist |
释义 | antisepticistn. rare. A person who advocates the use of antiseptic agents to prevent infection in surgery.In extended use and humorous in quot. 1975. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > advocating specific treatments antidotary?1541 stibiarian1635 iatraliptic1656 pyrurgian1684 Mercurialist1733 panaceist1803 galvanist1805 salivator1834 antisepticist1878 transfusionist1889 opsonist1911 fluoridationist1951 multidisciplinarian1955 1878 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 23 Feb. 256/1 The essential difference between Lister's position and that of other antisepticists lies in this: that he claims for his method an infallible and invariable result. 1881 L. Tait in Times 25 Apr. 5/6 If germs could have had the unbounded influence..claimed for them by many antisepticists. 1913 Cornhill Mag. Nov. 610 To men like Knowsley Thornton, for example, it was intolerable..that Lawson Tait should laugh at ‘rigid antisepticists’. 1975 J. Updike Month of Sundays i. 5 The shared chalice versus the disposable paper cuplet: how many hours of my professional life have been chewed to bitter shreds (the apocalyptic antisepticist among the deacons versus the holisticer-than-thou holdouts for the big Grail) by this liturgical debate. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1878 |
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