0 present participle of disinfect
1 to clean something using chemicals that kill bacteria and other very small living things that cause disease:
The current most common ways of disinfecting them include superheat and hyperchlorination.
The use of gloves in medical settings began in the early part of the twentieth century, mainly to protect medical personnel from harsh disinfecting solutions.
A possible explanation for this could be an interruption of the disinfecting process.
Another way to make the phylloxera physically visible was to recreate the vineyard as a disinfecting room outdoors.
Until 1901, no dosage recommendations had been supplied with instructions for disinfecting the vineyards.
This high diversity suggests a large degree of flexibility in the ability of these communities to respond successfully to cleaning and disinfecting procedures.
Treatments using disinfecting agents such as chlorhexidine or povidone-iodine have hardly been studied and there is no evidence to support their therapeutic value.
The future risk of typhoid could also be reduced by treating sewage and disinfecting water supplies.
