nonsterile

Examples

• All

• The adverse health consequences associated with the use of nonsterile injection equipment by illicit drug users are well documented.

  Academic text (2006)

• Failure to clean the injection site is part of a comprehensive complex of nonsterile injection behaviors that should be approached as a multifaceted behavioral health problem.

  Academic text (2006)

• Table 4 contains data about the association between not cleaning the injection site and five other high-risk practices that involve the reuse of nonsterile injection equipment.

  Academic text (2006)

• The correlation between the reuse of nonsterile equipment and the failure to clean the injection site is part of a series of high-risk behaviors that should be addressed in comprehensive risk reduction protocols.

  Academic text (2006)

• In recent years, hepatitis C has come out of obscurity to become one of the world's leading diseases and killers; the amplifier is the use of nonsterile syringes.

  Academic text (1998)

• Injection into a nonsterile site on the body is an additional major high-risk behavior that has received much less attention, despite its association with endocarditis, abscesses, bacterial infections, and other adverse health problems.

  Academic text (2006)

• Injection into a nonsterile injection site is widespread among injection drug users, and this risk behavior is frequent among both short- and long-term injectors, across age groups, among men and women, and among African American, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic White users in this study.

  Academic text (2006)

• Many injectors who have made strides in reducing their risk for HIV and hepatitis by using only sterile injection equipment have not made similar progress in reducing their exposure to bacterial pathogens that are associated with injection at a nonsterile site.

  Academic text (2006)

• Using nonsterile instruments during surgery can lead to serious infections.

• The clinic advised against using nonsterile dressings on open wounds to prevent infections.

Synonyms

U

unsterilized

vsnonsterile

• Specialized

1 6.3

Not made free of germs

is the same condition but stated as a general lack rather than process

U

unsterile

vsnonsterile

• Specialized

1 5.5

Not free from germs

is the identical meaning but uses the other negative prefix

U

unsanitized

vsnonsterile

• US

5.7

Not cleaned and may have germs or dirt

is narrower, focusing specifically on presence of microorganisms not other contaminants

Antonyms

S

sterile

• Specialized

37 4.4

Completely free from germs

How Sterile

sterile

• Specialized

37 4.4

aseptic

• Specialized

1 6.7

nonsterile

• Specialized

5.1

unclean

7 1.3

contaminated

4.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology