0 past simple and past participle of sterilize
1 to perform a medical operation on someone in order to make them unable to have children:
2 to make something completely clean and free from bacteria:
All equipment must be sterilized before use.
Some towns resolved this problem by setting up milk depots, which provided sterilized milk from healthy herds bottled for individual feeds.
Afterwards the filters were cut and transferred in a tube with 4 ml of sterilized water.
Eggs were washed with sterilized water by successive centrifugations, counted and scored according to their stage of maturity using light microscopy.
All cages, food, water, and bedding were sterilized before use.
Table 3 shows the relatively poor reproductive histories of women sterilized in 1951-52.
Following terminal anaesthesia the skin overlying the thorax was shaved, at the same time being sterilized with alcohol swabs.
Furthermore, we examined the bacterial growth in marine water in the absence of natural biological competitors, such as protozoae, using sterilized marine water.
Therefore, use of sterilized equipment should be compulsory for each child during circumcision.
