Usually means: Advocacy for antiseptic surgical methods.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. Listerism: Collins English Dictionary
  2. listerism: Wordnik
  3. Listerism: Wiktionary
  4. Listerism: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. listerism: Dictionary.com
  6. Listerism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. listerism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Listerism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. listerism: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Listerism: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. listerism: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. listerism: Medical dictionary

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▸ noun:  (medicine, archaic) The systematic use of antiseptics in operations and the treatment of wounds.

Similar:
leechcraft, leprology, antisepsis, lemology, loimology, medics, medicine, leprologist, liturgism, doctoring, more...

Opposite:
anti-septic, anti-bacterial, anti-microbial

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Similar:
leechcraft, leprology, antisepsis, lemology, loimology, medics, medicine, leprologist, liturgism, doctoring, more...

Opposite:
anti-septic, anti-bacterial, anti-microbial



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