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Seven times as much; multiplied by seven; sevenfold.

Relating to expansions of the nasal septum.

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

or preventing putrefaction, or a putrescent tendency in the system; antiputrefactive. Antiseptic surgery, that system of surgical practice which insists upon a systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the dressing of wounds.

By means of antiseptics.

An aseptic substance.

With two partitions or septa. Gray.

Between septa; as, the interseptal spaces or zones, between the transparent, or septal, zones in striated muscle; the interseptal chambers of a shell, or of a seed vessel.

Divided into many chambers by partitions, as the pith of the pokeweed.

Of or pertaining to the internasal septum.

One of the mesenteries of an anthozoan.

The half of a transept; as, the north semitransept of a church.

Having the ratio of one to seven. Bp. Wilkins.

ic churches these project these project greatly, and should be called the arms of the transept. It is common, however, to speak of the arms themselves as the transepts.

Having but one septum, or partition; -- said of two-celled fruits, such as the silicles of cruciferous plants.

A grayish green antiseptic powder, consisting of a basic iodide and gallate of bismuth, sometimes used in place of iodoform. [A Trademark]

A crystalline derivative of salicylic acid, used as an antiseptic and antirheumatic.

A colorless liquid prepared from herring brine and containing amines, used as a local antiseptic.

they were exceedingly numerous. They differ from the nautili in having the margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal. Also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu Ammonis.

Counteracting, or preserving from, putrefaction; antiseptic.