How to Use aseptic in a Sentence

aseptic

adjective
  • The aseptic color charts, the matter-of-fact panes of glass and mirrors.
    Jason Farago, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
  • To the right of the entrance, in what was once the foyer, the couple’s bed can be found in another aseptic stainless-steel box.
    Nick Haramis Laurent Kronental, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Early versions of the vaccine were linked to aseptic meningitis, or swelling of the membranes around the brain and spinal cord.
    Blake Essig, CNN, 26 Feb. 2021
  • They are aided by the bold stark lighting of Steven Annis’ camera and the open aseptic space designed by Thorsten Sabel, which eerily represents a cage.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The methods of aseptic technique to maintain sterility and a clean workspace were familiar.
    Nik Sharma, SFChronicle.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • The modern day adapts cooler, aseptic aesthetics, said Ambrossi.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Apollo 11 astronauts used an aseptic sampler to avoid contaminating the rocks and dirt collected from the moon.
    Boonsri Dickinson, Discover Magazine, 16 Apr. 2014
  • So as not to disturb the airflow, employees in aseptic spaces move slowly and deliberately, their arms raised as if in an act of surrender.
    Erika Fry, Fortune, 22 May 2018
  • In adulthood, mumps can cause severely swollen glands and testicles as well as aseptic meningitis, which produces such symptoms as fever, headache, stiff neck and vomiting.
    Karen Weintraub, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Safe to say, today’s patients and doctors are more comfortable with the aseptic medical practices developed over the past century.
    Marion Renault, The Atlantic, 2 June 2021
  • Ibuprofen in particular can cause a chemical irritation to the lining of the brain, called aseptic meningitis.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 19 Jan. 2022
  • The lack of information about the environment at the production bases, combined with the need for vaccine shots to be made in strictly aseptic settings, persuaded officials to take the measure, Anvisa said.
    BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Soldiers in World War II used the newly cheap and effective brushes with regimented fervor and became aseptic ambassadors of oral hygiene upon their return to home shores.
    Christian Millman, Discover Magazine, 22 Oct. 2019
  • But doing so will involve a series of technical challenges — including finding ways to grow the principal component of a vaccine, which must be aseptic, in mosquitoes.
    Heidi Ledford, Scientific American, 28 Apr. 2021
  • The lack of information about the environment at the production bases, combined with the need for vaccine shots to be made in strictly aseptic settings, persuaded officials to take the measure, according to the regulator.
    Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 7 Sep. 2021
  • But the Japanese government’s confidence was shaken in 1993 when the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine led to cases of aseptic meningitis and a significant compensation bill for the Health Ministry.
    Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2020
  • By the 1950s, with the advent of antibiotics and improved aseptic practices, the medical establishment also believed that patient healthiness could be maintained regardless of room design.
    Jeanne Kisacky, Smithsonian, 14 June 2017
  • By the 1950s, with the advent of antibiotics and improved aseptic practices, the medical establishment also believed that patient healthiness could be maintained regardless of room design.
    Jeanne Kisacky, Smithsonian, 14 June 2017
  • The rise in cosmetic surgery, supplemented by the rise of social media, tyrannically regresses us toward an imagined mean of physical appearance at once aseptic and aesthetic.
    Will Self, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
  • The city currently accepts items including: All cardboard products, cereal boxes, corrugated boxes, paper towel rolls, egg cartons, milk and juice cartons, aseptic containers (soy, wine, etc.).
    Roy Kent, Houston Chronicle, 6 June 2019

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