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sterileness

/ster-il or, especially British, -ahyl/US // ˈstɛr ɪl or, especially British, -aɪl //UK // (ˈstɛraɪl) //

不育症,无菌性,无菌,无菌状态

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : free from living germs or microorganisms; aseptic: sterile surgical instruments.
    • : incapable of producing offspring; not producing offspring.
    • : barren; not producing vegetation: sterile soil.
    • : Botany. noting a plant in which reproductive structures fail to develop.bearing no stamens or pistils.
    • : not productive of results, ideas, etc.; fruitless.

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Examples

  • Equipped with 130 items, you’ll get 50 adhesive bandages, an instant cold press, and a sterile eye pad.

  • Complete with 348 items, organized neatly into 20 inner compartments, you’ll get a comprehensive kit including 28 sting relief pads, 10 large sterile gauze pads, and one emergency glow stick.

  • This decidedly non-invasive diagnostic simply requires a spit sample that can be collected in a sterile container.

  • They had been home with their families for so long in what can be a socially sterile environment.

  • We went from the availability of one dose of the drug in 1941, to four million sterile packages of the drug every month four years later.

  • In reality,” Francis said, “theatrical severity and sterile pessimism are often symptoms of fear and insecurity.

  • Koenig has not been a sterile, objective narrator; she has openly voiced her biases, concerns, and gut feelings all along.

  • “Nonsterile gloves and sterile obstetric and surgical gloves were depleted or absent in all four counties,” the report reads.

  • Though she portrays the Gulf Coast city as sterile, she also writes about it as a kind of haven.

  • Birenbaum-Carmeli also points to technology that means even a near-sterile man can now be assisted to impregnate his wife.

  • The letter was the swift and desperate sequel to several days' absolutely sterile reflection.

  • Human milk is sterile when secreted, but derives a few bacteria from the lacteal ducts.

  • Sterile, dissipated and prodigal, she made her husband very unhappy, thus avenging the first Mme. Brunner.

  • This country was so cold and sterile and unpropitious that winter predominated, and it was difficult to support life.

  • The country which they passed through was sterile in the extreme, and the expedition proved a failure.