UNSTERILIZED Synonyms: 111 Similar and Opposite Words

unsterilized

adjective

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Recent Examples of unsterilized It can also be transmitted through sharing personal care items (like a razor or toothbrush) or getting a tattoo or piercing from unsterilized equipment. —

Julia Ries, SELF, 21 June 2023 The aim is to slow the spread of diseases like hepatitis C that can spread when inmates try to tattoo themselves or each other with unsterilized tools like electric motors and ballpoint pens and share contaminated needles. —

From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2022 Animal shelters across the country have been battling a deacades-long pandemic of sorts dealing with the consequences of unvaccinated and unsterilized pets, from surrenders of pets to animal shelters to the needless euthanasia of homeless pets. —

Cathy M. Rosenthal, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Sep. 2021 Out-of-control children were dosed with adult tranquilizers, administered through unsterilized needles, while many who fell ill received transfusions of unscreened blood. —

Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 21 Dec. 2020 Wollstonecraft was later to die in tragic irony, at the unsterilized hands of the male surgeon who delivered her second daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, a genius who manifested her mother’s bioethical themes in the novel of the era, Frankenstein. —

Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 19 Nov. 2020 The disease often results from cutting the umbilical cord with an unsterilized instrument, introducing the microbe into a susceptible wound. —

Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 29 Sep. 2015

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Brimonidine Tartrate Ophthalmic Solution, 0.15%: A special tool designated for those with glaucoma or ocular hypertension, a small subset of these eye drops are being voluntarily recalled as faulty caps may lead to unsterile solutions that may cause similar symptoms.

— Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 25 Mar. 2023
There have also been reports of black market silicone injections, which are done illegally and in typically unsterile environments – further increasing the risk for health problems.

— Jenna Ryu, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2023