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Putrefaction :: Putrefaction (n.) The act or the process of putrefying; the offensive decay of albuminous or other matter.

Disposition :: Disposition (n.) Tendency to any action or state resulting from natural constitution; nature; quality; as, a disposition in plants to grow in a direction upward; a disposition in bodies to putrefaction..

Skatol :: Skatol (n.) A constituent of human faeces formed in the small intestines as a product of the putrefaction of albuminous matter. It is also found in reduced indigo. Chemically it is methyl indol, C9H9N..

Disinfect :: Disinfect (v. t.) To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous.

Corruption :: Corruption (n.) The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration..

Putrefactive :: Putrefactive (a.) Causing, or tending to promote, putrefaction..

Putrescible :: Putrescible (a.) Capable of putrefaction; liable to become putrid; as, putrescible substances..

Septically :: Septically (adv.) In a septic manner; in a manner tending to promote putrefaction.

Putrification :: Putrification (n.) Putrefaction.

Antiputrescent :: Antiputrescent (a.) Counteracting, or preserving from, putrefaction; antiseptic..

Taint :: Taint (v. i.) To be affected with incipient putrefaction; as, meat soon taints in warm weather..

Antiseptic :: Antiseptic (n.) A substance which prevents or retards putrefaction, or destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, salt, carbolic acid, alcohol, cinchona..

Septical :: Septical (a.) Having power to promote putrefaction.

Indol :: Indol (n.) A white, crystalline substance, C8H7N, obtained from blue indigo, and almost all indigo derivatives, by a process of reduction. It is also formed from albuminous matter, together with skatol, by putrefaction, and by fusion with caustic potash, and is present in human excrement, as well as in the intestinal canal of some herbivora..

Septic :: Septic (n.) A substance that promotes putrefaction.

Putrefaction :: Putrefaction (n.) The condition of being putrefied; also, that which putrefied..

Aerometry :: Aerometry (n.) The science of measuring the air, including the doctrine of its pressure, elasticity, rarefaction, and condensation; pneumatics..

Rarification :: Rarification (n.) See Rarefaction.

Rarefaction :: Rarefaction (n.) The act or process of rarefying; the state of being rarefied; -- opposed to condensation; as, the rarefaction of air..

Putrid :: Putrid (a.) Tending to decomposition or decay; decomposed; rotten; -- said of animal or vegetable matter; as, putrid flesh. See Putrefaction..

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