Septic: alternatives and connections

Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white.

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Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white.

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Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectio…

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Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectio…

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Infectious.

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Infectious.

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Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies.

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Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies.

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Consisting of pus, or matter; partaking of the nature of pus; attended with suppuration; as, purulent inflammation.

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Consisting of pus, or matter; partaking of the nature of pus; attended with suppuration; as, purulent inflammation.

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A pet name for a cat; also, an endearing name for a girl.

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A pet name for a cat; also, an endearing name for a girl.

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Of or pertaining to putrefaction; as, the putrefactive smell or process.

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Of or pertaining to putrefaction; as, the putrefactive smell or process.

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The poisoning of the system by the introduction of putrescent material into the blood.

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The poisoning of the system by the introduction of putrescent material into the blood.

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To undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving of…

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of Infect

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