sterilized
Definition
- 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.
Adjective
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made infertile
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