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sterilise
verb
(British and Commonwealth): To sterilize.
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During our discussion, Koska repeatedly pauses to show me video clips shot undercover of doctors and nurses in the developing world going around their wards, shoving blunt needles into patients without pausing to change syringe or to sterilise, even though sterilisation itself has long been viewed as an ineffective means of stopping the spread of infection.
At the end of its lifecycle, the fabric is designed to separate into its original two components using autoclave, a common steam sterilisation process used in doctors and dentists offices to sterilise medical instruments.
Now is a good opportunity to put the jam jars and lids in the oven to sterilise.
The response of the Nazis was simple: sterilise them.
Some hospitals disinfect rooms with remote-controlled machines, such as the Q-10 made by Bioquell, a British manufacturer, or a robot produced by Xenex Disinfection Services in Texas, which can sterilise a room in ten minutes.Last autumn the UN Office for Project Services in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, suggested some governments in Africa might invest in such kit.
(c) The data "buses" that link the components of a computer together.10 One way to deal with insect pests is to sterilise them in large numbers and then release them into the wild to mate fruitlessly with others.
After a series of heated hearings the city has decided to spend $150,000 on getting sharpshooters to kill 100 deer and veterinarians to sterilise another 100.
Snap-up bank-note holders that press while they sterilise are also available, as are bug-killing tissues, floors, wallpaper, stuffed toys, bicycle child seats, sand boxes, origami paper and steering wheels.
Some Islamist groups oppose the vaccinations, accusing health workers of being part of a Western plot somehow to sterilise Muslims.Fraying tempersRiot police violently tried to clear pro-Western protesters from Independence Square in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.
And since India already has one of the biggest budget deficits among emerging economies (7% of GDP for central and state government), it simply cannot afford to intervene and sterilise on China's scale.Another big difference is that inflation in India is much higher than it is in China, where consumer-price inflation is running at 3%.
Militants oppose the vaccination schemes, which they mistakenly see as a Western plot to sterilise Muslims.A suicide-bomb near a popular restaurant in Kabul killed 21 people, including a senior IMF official.
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