Health Care

Antisepsis

The destruction of germs causing disease.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

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The destruction of germs causing disease.

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Indexed with the subheadings history, instrumentation, methods, standards.

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differentiate from ASEPSIS: ANTISEPSIS is the destruction of pathogens, ASEPSIS is the prev of their invasion

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Antisepsis. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000985. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000985
  2. Antisepsis. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q583377