Putrefaction Definition

pyo͝otrə-făkshən
noun
The decomposition of organic matter by bacteria, fungi, and oxidation, resulting in the formation of foul-smelling products; a rotting.
Webster's New World
An amount of putrefied matter or an odor produced by such matter.
American Heritage Medicine
Rotted material.
Wiktionary
The state of being rotted.
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Other Word Forms of Putrefaction

Noun

Singular:
putrefaction
Plural:
putrefactions

Origin of Putrefaction

  • Middle English putrefaccioun from Late Latin putrefactiō putrefactiōn- from putrefactus past participle of Latin putrefacere to make rotten putrefy

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Coined between 1350 and 1400 from Middle English putrefaccioun, from Latin putrefactiō, from putrefactus, perfect passive participle of putrefaciō (“become rotten")

    From Wiktionary

Putrefaction Sentence Examples

  • Bacon describes oak-apples as " an exudation of plants joined with putrefaction."

  • If organic matter were first sterilized and then prevented from contamination from without, putrefaction did not occur, and the matter remained free from microbes.

  • In 1697 Georg Stahl admitted that fermentation and putrefaction were analogous processes, but that the former was a particular case of the latter.

  • It is also produced during the putrefaction of organic substances containing sulphur and is found among the products obtained in the destructive distillation of coal.

  • In the end much inorganic nitrogen salts must be added to the sea both in the above way and as the result of the putrefaction of the dead substance of terrestrial animals and plants.

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