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- noun Alternative spelling of
sterilizer .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a device for heating substances above their boiling point; used to manufacture chemicals or to sterilize surgical instruments
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Examples
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Another new feature is its Baby and Toddler-friendly portfolio of nearly 200 properties, each of which has a tick-list of facilities such as cots, high chairs, steriliser and enclosed garden, as well as useful information on nearby child-friendly restaurants, buggy-friendly walks and soft play centres.
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An encounter with a steam steriliser or an oxygen tent with added humidity could prove fatal.
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An encounter with a steam steriliser or an oxygen tent with added humidity could prove fatal.
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Emerging with new found skills such as making up cots with the pictures on the counterpane facing towards the child, how to mix a Milton steriliser, umpteen ways to fold a nappy (you wore a clutch of nappy pins attached to your pocket with pride) and the art of bathing a baby it was a thrill to finally set foot on a ward and you quickly realised that they were very special places.
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An encounter with a steam steriliser or an oxygen tent with added humidity could prove fatal.
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Emerging with new found skills such as making up cots with the pictures on the counterpane facing towards the child, how to mix a Milton steriliser, umpteen ways to fold a nappy (you wore a clutch of nappy pins attached to your pocket with pride) and the art of bathing a baby it was a thrill to finally set foot on a ward and you quickly realised that they were very special places.
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Emerging with new found skills such as making up cots with the pictures on the counterpane facing towards the child, how to mix a Milton steriliser, umpteen ways to fold a nappy (you wore a clutch of nappy pins attached to your pocket with pride) and the art of bathing a baby it was a thrill to finally set foot on a ward and you quickly realised that they were very special places.
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When I got to the surgery Siegfried had the steriliser bubbling and everything laid out.
Every living thing Herriot, James 1992
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Even if the steriliser is provided with the capsule regulator above described the contact thermometer should also be fitted.
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If the steam steriliser of the laboratory is sufficiently large, it is sometimes more convenient to place the flask and filtering funnel bodily inside, close the steriliser and allow filtration to proceed in an atmosphere of live steam, than to use the gas ring and hot-water funnel.
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