Putrefaction synonyms

pyo͝o'trə-făk'shən

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rot
Rot means something decayed or decomposed.
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decomposition
(--- Biology) Breakdown or decay of organic materials.
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corruption
(Computing) The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media.
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decay
Decay is defined as rotted matter or the state of rotting, deteriorating or declining.
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deterioration
The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.
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disintegration
(Nuclear Physics) Any change in a nucleus of an atom, whether spontaneous or induced, in which one or more particles, photons, etc. are emitted
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rottenness
The quality of being rotten.
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spoilage
The part of something that has spoiled.
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better (related)
Advantage
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thrive (related)
The condition of being decayed
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degeneracy
(Genetics) The presence in the genetic code of multiple codons for the same amino acid.
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depravation
Change for the worse; deterioration; morbid perversion.
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depravity
A depraved condition; corruption; wickedness
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rotting
The process by which something rots.
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putrefy (related)
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putrid (related)
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effluvium (related)
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putrescence
The condition of being putrid; decay
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Putrefaction Sentence Examples

  • If organic matter were first sterilized and then prevented from contamination from without, putrefaction did not occur, and the matter remained free from microbes.

  • Bacon describes oak-apples as " an exudation of plants joined with putrefaction."

  • The oil separates from the fat-cells and is found lying free, while the sulphuretted hydrogen evolved as one of the products of putrefaction reacts upon the iron of the blood and throws down a precipitate of sulphide of iron, which in course of time imparts to the limb a range of colour commencing in green and terminating in black.

  • At an early age he contributed to our knowledge of the causes of putrefaction and fermentation.

  • When Pasteur in 1857 showed that the lactic fermentation depends on the presence of an organism, it was already known from the researches of Schwann (1837) and Helmholtz (1843) that fermentation and putrefaction are intimately connected with the presence of organisms derived from the air, and that the preservation of putrescible substances depends on this principle.

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