putrefaction is a major component of body decomposition. From LearnThat.org.
Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
He (that is, man) as a rotten thing, the principle of whose putrefaction is in itself, consumes, even like a moth-eaten garment, which becomes continually worse and worse. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference
He was looking at it as though it were an animal, days dead and far gone in putrefaction, that had been malevolently dumped on a pristine altar consecrated to solemn rituals and tended to by votaries of an elite cult. From Wordnik.com. [Florence of Arabia] Reference
Destruction supervenes when the determined gets the better of the determining by the help of the environment (though in a special sense the word putrefaction is applied to partial destruction, when. From Wordnik.com. [Meteorology] Reference
Changes such as putrefaction take place in the dead body, but they are changes which would take place in any mass similarly constituted, and are not influenced by the fact that the mass was once living. From Wordnik.com. [Disease and Its Causes] Reference
The smell of putrefaction wasn't obvious at first. From Wordnik.com. [To Make Way for the Future] Reference
ANTISEPTIC -- That which will prevent putrefaction. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Only the prompt use of carbolic can stay the ravages of putrefaction; and. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
These substances, as is well known, hasten putrefaction of organic matter. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
That meat enormously increases intestinal putrefaction cannot be questioned. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting Battle Creek, Michigan, September 10 and 11, 1934] Reference
It has been supposed by many that the light of the moon promotes putrefaction. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
When out of balance they create an environment of putrefaction and fermentation. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen Barrie, ND: The Keys to Maintaining a Healthy Gut] Reference
As a result of this putrefaction there are produced certain ptomaines and leucomaines. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
So ripe olives, when they are next to putrefaction, then are they in their proper beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
Pity on a speculator calculating huge revenues from the festering putrefaction of human disease!. From Wordnik.com. [Ambrotox and Limping Dick] Reference
It should not increase fermentation or putrefaction and the greater portion of it should be absorbed. From Wordnik.com. [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference
When most people think of putrefaction they are actually picturing decomposition by anaerobic bacteria. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
Bran prevents intestinal fermentation and children who eat it are free from intestinal gas and putrefaction. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
An = Antiseptic = is a substance which inhibits and stops the growth of the bacteria of putrefaction and decomposition. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)] Reference
In this helpless condition he lies, looking like some mass of putrefaction that has just been removed from a charnel-house. From Wordnik.com. [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference
A = Deodorant = is a substance which neutralizes or destroys the unpleasant odors arising from matter undergoing putrefaction. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)] Reference
First, it, has totally prevented all tendency to putrefaction, and thus a sound skin has attached itself to the roots of the feathers. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
If, as sometimes happens, the fermentative action be too slow, putrefaction of a portion is liable to take place, and the vinegar is spoilt. From Wordnik.com. [The Production of Vinegar from Honey] Reference
Sometimes, late at night, when the air is too clean, too empty, I join Addie behind his dumpster where we hum and wave our hands in putrefaction. From Wordnik.com. [Chinchillas in the Air] Reference
A strict order is now in force that all bodies should be interred only when it becomes impossible to longer preserve them from absolute putrefaction. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
The ease with which all sea-weeds pass into a state of putrefaction, adapts them in a peculiar manner to the manurial requirements of a cold and damp climate. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Agricultural Chemistry] Reference
Its vitality enables it to resist high temperatures, changes in temperature, drying and putrefaction to a, greater degree than most non-spore-producing germs. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
All around him hung a noxious green cloud, which became excited when Cornelio opened the door, and rushed out, eager to escape the confines of it own putrefaction. From Wordnik.com. [The Damned Thing Out] Reference
No doubt the vegetable and insect food consumed by these cause fermentation after death, with the resultant putrefaction of the bowels and the thin coverings of the latter. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
Constipation, semi-constipation, and irregular action of the bowels, excessive fermentation, putrefaction, self-generated or auto-infection, are the factors to be considered. From Wordnik.com. [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference
The diner at the corner had tossed its garbage out onto the curb in black plastic bags, at least one of which had burst, releasing unmistakable evidence of advanced putrefaction. From Wordnik.com. [LETTER FROM AMERICA] Reference
It would thus seem that the process of denitrification will take place in water-logged soils, or in the putrefaction of sewage matter in the presence of large quantities of water. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
Pasteur and Cohn also pointed out that putrefaction is but a special case of fermentation, and before 1872 the doctrines of Pasteur were established with respect to Schizomycetes. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
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