disease-germs
21dis|in|fect|ant — «DIHS ihn FEHK tuhnt», noun, adjective. –n. a substance or means used to destroy disease germs. Alcohol, iodine, and carbolic acid are disinfectants. Heat is a disinfectant. –adj. used to destroy disease germs: »a disinfectant soap …
22dis|in|fect — «DIHS ihn FEHKT», transitive verb. to destroy the disease germs in or on: »to disinfect dental instruments. Garbage chutes lead into a…device that compresses the refuse, disinfects it, and even sprays it with perfume (New York Times). SYNONYM(S) …
23germ´like´ — germ «jurm», noun, adjective. –n. 1. a microscopic animal, plant, or other organism, especially one that causes disease; microbe: »the germ of scarlet fever. There are many kinds of germs, including bacteria, viruses, and protozoa. 2. the… …
24genetics, human — ▪ biology Introduction study of the inheritance of characteristics by children from parents. Inheritance in humans does not differ in any fundamental way from that in other organisms. The study of human heredity occupies a central… …
25ger|mi|cide — «JUR muh syd», noun. any substance that kills germs, especially disease germs. Disinfectants and fungicides are germicides …
26vection — Transference of the agents of disease from an infected to an uninfected individual by a vector. [L. vectio, conveyance] * * * vec·tion (vekґshən) [L. vectio a carrying] the carrying of disease germs from an infected individual to a well one… …
27contagion — n. 1. Infection, communication of disease (by contact, direct or indirect). 2. Contagious matter, disease germs, virus, contagium. 3. Contamination, taint, corruption, infection. 4. Pestilential influence, poisonous exhalations, pestilence,… …
28Mormonism and history — The Mormon religion is predicated on what are said to be historical events such as the First Vision of Joseph Smith and the historicity of the Book of Mormon, which describes a detailed pre Columbian history of North America.[1] President Joseph… …
29germ warfare — n. the deliberate contamination of enemy territory with disease germs during a war * * * …
30disinfect — disinfection, n. disinfective, adj. disinfector, n. /dis in fekt /, v.t. to cleanse (rooms, wounds, clothing, etc.) of infection; destroy disease germs in. [1590 1600; < MF desinfecter, equiv. to des DIS 1 + infecter to INFECT] * * * …
