Meaning of Listerize | Babel Free

Definitions

To make antiseptic.

dated, transitive

Examples

“[…] after Esmarch we hold back the bloody torrent which once gushed forth after the catling; and Listerizing with Lister's spray we bar all passage into gaping wounds of motes that people the sunbeam and breed havoc in the tract of the sanguineous life stream.”

“Another operation was urged as a necessity (for what I never heard), and after much cutting, scraping and Listerizing, it was pronounced to be cancer of the womb, and in February she died.”

“Still, all unknown, the message had gone forth from the miserable little garret at the Ecole Normale, and, though little understood, the whisper reached Pasteur that the English surgeons at Bazeilles were 'Listerizing' wounds with great success.”

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