sterilized

Thân thiện

The baby bottle is sterilized before use.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Made infertile; incapable of reproduction: Describes a living organism, typically an animal or a person, that has undergone a medical procedure to permanently remove the ability to produce offspring.
   • Freed from live bacteria or other microorganisms; made sterile: Describes an object, surface, or substance that has been treated to eliminate all living microbes, making it aseptic.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The shelter only adopts out sterilized cats and dogs to help control the pet population.
  • All surgical instruments must be completely sterilized before use in an operation.
  • They bought sterilized soil for their indoor plants to avoid pests.

Advanced Usage

• "to be sterilized against": This phrasing is less common but can imply making something immune or resistant by eliminating a specific agent.
  • The laboratory equipment was sterilized against any possible fungal contamination.

Variants and Related Words

• Sterilize (verb): To make sterile or infertile.
  • The veterinarian will sterilize the rabbit.
• Sterilization (noun): The process of making something sterile.
  • Sterilization of water is essential in some regions.
• Sterile (adjective): The base adjective meaning free from living germs or unable to produce.
  • A sterile bandage / a sterile hybrid plant.

Synonyms

• Infertile: Incapable of reproducing (for living beings).
• Aseptic: Free from disease-causing microorganisms (for objects/medicine).
• Disinfected: Treated to destroy harmful microorganisms, though not necessarily all life forms like "sterilized" implies.
• Pasteurized: Treated with heat to destroy pathogens, specifically in liquids like milk (a specific type of sterilization).

Antonyms

• Fertile: Capable of reproducing or supporting growth.
• Contaminated: Polluted with harmful or infectious agents.
• Septic: Infected with microorganisms, especially bacteria.

Related Phrases

• To undergo sterilization: To have the medical procedure performed.
  • The couple decided that he would undergo sterilization.
• Sterilized environment: An area kept completely free of microbes.
  • The medication is prepared in a sterilized environment.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. made infertile

Từ đồng nghĩa

• sterilised