Disinfectant
Zell's Condensed Dictionary · 1879 · p. 16
(-fektant.) [From L. priv. dis, and infect us, tainted. ] A substance that is capable of neutralizing morbific effluvia or whatever may produce infection. The most powerful disinfectants are chlorine, in the form of chloride of lime, and carbolic acid in solution. The term is extended by medical authors to antiseptics or agents that are capable of removing any incipient or fully formed septic condition of the living body, or ofany part of it. [s. 201]
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