unsterilized
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- adjective
- /ʌnˈstɛrɪlaɪzd/
- Specialized
:
no esterilizado
- Many health experts warn that procedures performed with unsterilized instruments can spread harmful diseases.
- unsterilized instruments
Examples
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Most analysts foresee the FOMC will supplant Operation Twist, which expires on December 31, with unsterilized Treasury purchases totaling $45B.
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Using unsterilized equipment can lead to serious infections and health risks.
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Spread in part by unsterilized needles being shared.
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Midwives often perform the operation with unsterilized instruments or even broken glass and without anesthesia on girls four to twelve.
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Yes, the odds of unilateral, even unsterilized, intervention working were also slim, but Japanese officials must have known and appreciated that too.
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I finished my research on Deadly Pedicures, about the woman who contracted that fungus from the unsterilized tools.
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In the weeks that followed, many other unsterilized probing fingers and devices were inserted into Garfield's body searching for the bullet.
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Unsterilized peat is also home to a number of different microorganisms, including bacteria, fungi, and other small plants.
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Brucellosis is a highly contagious zoonosis caused by ingestion of unsterilized milk or meat from infected cows or close contact with their secretions.
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To induce sterility, a fairly high dosage of radiation is required—but that can leave the insects less competitive than unsterilized moths.
Academic text (2006)
Synonyms
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Not free from germs
Not completely free from germs
Not cleaned and may have germs or dirt
How Sterile
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Surface Forms
Morphology
unsterilized = sterilized (transparent) = un + sterilize + ed
The productive negative prefix 'un-' is attached to the adjective 'sterilized' to form the straightforward opposite meaning.
Etymology
Unsterilized is made of the prefix un- meaning 'not' and sterilized, from sterile meaning 'without life' or 'very clean'. So, unsterilized simply means 'not cleaned of germs'.