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Prevention of sepsis by excluding or destroying microorganisms.

By means of antiseptics.

By way antithesis.

That of which the type pattern or representation; that which is represented by the type or symbol.

The serum of blood rendered antitoxic to a venom by repeated injections of small doses of the venom.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, antonomasia. -- An`to*no*mas"tic*al*ly, adv.

An Egyptian deity, the conductor of departed spirits, represented by a human figure with the head of a dog or fox.

One of the orders of amphibians characterized by the absence of a tail, as the frogs and toads. [Written also anoura.]

One taken at random rather than by selection; anybody.

An indirect argument which proves a thing by showing the impossibility or absurdity of the contrary.

Proving indirectly, by showing the absurdity, or impossibility of the contrary. Bp. Berkeley.

A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions. Fielding.

tate of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion. "The apathy of despair." Macaulay. A certain apathy or sluggishness in his nature which led him . . . to leave events to take their own course. Prescott. According to the Stoics, apathy meant the ext…

One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic. Byron.

An anomalous state of refraction caused by the absence of the crystalline lens, as after operations for cataract. The remedy is the use of powerful convex lenses. Dunglison.

Pertaining to, or affected by, aphasia; speechless.

An operation by which any part is separated from the rest. [Obs.] Dunglison.

Shortened by dropping a letter or a syllable from the beginning of a word; as, an aphetic word or form. -- A*phet"ic*al*ly, adv. New Eng. Dict.

To shorten by aphesis. These words . . . have been aphetized. New Eng. Dict.

as, an aphlogistic lamp, in which a coil of wire is kept in a state of continued ignition by alcohol, without flame.