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Example sentences for "putrescence"

Lexicographically close words:
putrefaction; putrefactive; putrefied; putrefy; putrefying; putrescent; putrescible; putrid; putridity; putrified
  1. The fermentative saprophyte is as absolutely essential to the setting up of destructive rotting or putrescence in a putrescible fluid as the torula is to the setting up of alcoholic fermentation in a saccharine fluid.

  2. I have stated that they were the inevitable accompaniments of putrescence and decay.

  3. And their numberless billions, springing every moment into existence wherever putrescence appeared, led to the question, How do they originate?

  4. It possesses active powers, and is a great antiseptic and corrector of putrescence and mortification.

  5. The progressive tendency of burns of the unfavourable kind, or ill-treated, is to putrescence and mortification.

  6. In both cases the new diet was accepted without hesitation, a proof that it suited the nurseling; but in a day or two putrescence supervened and the Scolia perished on the fetid morsel.

  7. It may be carried away in an open ditch which has good flow, but if allowed to collect in pools it will undergo further putrescence and be objectionable.

  8. With a plant composed of a septic tank and anaerobic filter, sewage is rendered almost free from odor and the effluent will not undergo further putrescence when collected in pools.

  9. Upon the preceding principles and experiments depend the several processes employed for protecting substances from putrescence and corruption.

  10. Generally speaking, univalves are more easily kept than bivalves; many of the latter are apt to die off, and cause some amount of putrescence before their demise is discovered.

  11. Transcendent alchemists, they were transforming that horrible putrescence into a living and inoffensive product.

  12. The adults discovered in the company of their larval family, in this putrescence which was a Rat, are all abominably verminous.

  13. The progressive tendency of burns of the unfavorable kind, or those that are ill-treated, is to putrescence and mortification.

  14. Vinegar is a great antiseptic and corrector of putrescence and mortification.

  15. In diphtheritic endometritis the gangrenous process may attack the muscular tissue, and give rise to losses of muscular substance--a condition known as necrotic endometritis or putrescence of the uterus.

  16. Whatever the force that, streaming from the Dweller or impregnating its lair, had energized the dead-alive, it was barrier against putrescence of any kind; that at least was certain.

  17. The odour of putrescence has become actually painful and almost intolerable to the more cleanly classes of mankind, owing to the association with it, as the result of education, of fear of disease and poisoning.

  18. Their putrescence is evident, their stagnation is unhealthy, their fermentation infects people with fever, and etiolates them; their multiplication becomes a plague of Egypt.

  19. All sorts of phantoms haunt these long, solitary corridors; everywhere is putrescence and miasma; here and there are breathing-holes, where Villon within converses with Rabelais without.


  20. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "putrescence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.