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adj. Of, pertaining to, or causing putrefaction

Same as putrefactive.

n. An agent or a substance that produces putrefaction.

adj. causing or promoting bacterial putrefaction

"For cutting, excising, sewing, binding, applying putrefacient means to the anus, - all these appear to be very formidable things, and yet, after all, they are not attended with mischief."

septic    infected