putrefactive's Usage Examples:

bring organic material to the putrefactive state - or saprophilous, i.

Nevertheless, gangrene is nothing more or less than the putrefactive fermentation of an animal tissue still attached to the body.

If the dead part be protected from the ingress of putrefactive organisms, however, it separates from that which is living without the ordinary evidences of gangrene, and is then known as an " aseptic slough.

They are of importance, since the higher homologues are identical in many cases with the ptomaines produced by the putrefactive action of some bacteria on albumen and other related substances.

lactobacillus rhamnosus can inhibit the growth of pathogenic organisms in the GI tract and inhibit putrefactive toxins.

When exposed to air the latex gradually undergoes putrefactive changes accompanied by coagulation of the caoutchouc.

The outward symptoms of many diseases consist in excessive discharges of moisture, often accompanied by bursting of over-turgid cells, and eventually by putrefactive changes.

In the interior of the grape, in the healthy blood, no such germs exist; crush the grape, wound the flesh, and expose them to the ordinary air, then changes, either fermentative or putrefactive, run their course.

We have thus an explanation of the occurrence of marsh gas and sulphuretted hydrogen in bogs, and it is highly probable that the existence of these gases in the intestines of herbivorous animals is due to similar putrefactive changes in the undigested cellulose remains.

avri, against, and vrJIrrucos, putrefactive), the name given to substances which are used for the prevention of bacterial development in animal or vegetable matter.

"Nevertheless, gangrene is nothing more or less than the putrefactive fermentation of an animal tissue still attached to the body.

The combined nitrogen of dead organisms, broken down to ammonia by putrefactive bacteria, the ammonia of urea and the results of the fixation of free nitrogen, together with traces of nitrogen salts due to meteoric activity, are thus seen to undergo various vicissitudes in the soil, rivers and surface of the globe generally.

Synonyms:

infected, putrefacient, septic,

Antonyms:

antiseptic, germfree, healthful, iodine,