Crossword-Solution: GERMICIDE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Germicide | a. | Destructive to germs; -- applied to any agent which has a destructive action upon living germs, particularly bacteria, or bacterial germs, which are considered the cause of many infectious diseases. |
| Germicide | n. | A germicide agent. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “GERMICIDE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BACTERIA-killing substance | 1 answer |
| GERM-destroying substance | 1 answer |
| substance that kills germs | 1 answer |
| BACTERICIDE | 2 answers |
| Wonder drug | 6 answers |
| antigen | 9 answers |
| prophylactic | 16 answers |
| hygiene | 24 answers |
| Disinfectant. | 25 answers |
| antiseptic | 43 answers |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with GERMICIDE (5)
Its germicide action on the bacteria should be so strong that a dose which would be fatal or very injurious to them would be too small to have a deleterious influence on the body of the individual.
They conceive microbes as immortal until slain by a germicide administered by a duly qualified medical man.
VIVISECTING THE HUMAN SUBJECT I have in my hand a printed and published account by a doctor of how he tested his remedy for pulmonary tuberculosis, which was to inject a powerful germicide directly into the circulation by stabbing a vein with a syringe.
This may be done by dipping them in melted paraffine, or packing them in salt, small ends down; or pack them in a keg and cover them with brine; or pack them in a keg, small ends down and cover them with lime water; this not only protects them from the air, but acts as a germicide.
But if the protective covering of grease is incomplete at any point, it may there prove ineffective, and there is no chemical protection whatever if the particular germicide relied upon, such as quinine, has been omitted.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1958).