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Listerize
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English
Etymology
From en Lister ize.
Verb
en transitive dated To make antiseptic.
en Maryland Medical Journal: Medicine and Surgery 4 284 1878 after Esmarch we hold back the bloody torrent which once gushed forth after the catling; and Listerizing with Lister's spray we bar all passage into gaping wounds of motes that people the sunbeam and breed havoc in the tract of the sanguineous life stream. https://books.google.com/books?id=yBugAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22listerizing%22&pg=PA284#v=onepage&q=%22listerizing%22&f=false
en Homœopathic Journal of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Pediatrics 1887 Another operation was urged as a necessity (for what I never heard), and after much cutting, scraping and Listerizing, it was pronounced to be cancer of the womb, and in February she died. 144 https://books.google.com/books?id=qbtXAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22listerizing%22&pg=PA144#v=onepage&q=%22listerizing%22&f=false
en The Nineteenth Century and After 102 1902 Still, all unknown, the message had gone forth from the miserable little garret at the Ecole Normale, and, though little understood, the whisper reached Pasteur that the English surgeons at Bazeilles were 'Listerizing' wounds with great success. https://books.google.com/books?id=mENDAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22listerizing%22&pg=PA102#v=onepage&q=%22listerizing%22&f=false
Anagrams
en eeiilrstz sterilize
en 3-syllable words eponyms