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Sentence Examples Most chest infections are usually caused by germs such as bacteria or viruses. The river water is untreated and can harbour germs that cause illnesses such as Weil's disease. A whole day of radiation of ultraviolet rays even kills the most resistant of germs. So within a short time, there will be millions of germs resistant to penicillin. For added protection, a swipe with an antibacterial wipe knocks out plenty more germs, so pack a few in your carry-on. The antibacterial soap kills most germs, while regular soap washes bacteria from the skin or transfers it to a towel. Do antibacterial soaps get rid of germs better than plain old soap and hot water? These difficulties aside, there is value in gathering the many examples of ancient uses of poisons, germs, and incendiaries into a single study. If you have a runny nose or a cough and take garlic your body becomes a more unpleasant environment for germs and they high-tail it out of you. This water emerges saturated with oxygen that is able to kill germs, build bodily strength and support the immune system. When infectious people cough, sneeze, talk or spit, they propel TB germs, known as bacilli, into the air. Various germs such as fungi and bacteria live harmlessly on the skin and inside the body. Scientists have long known that the human body coexists with trillions of individual germs, what they call the microbiome. He's obsessive-compulsive, a man who cannot live without moist towelettes at the ready because, after all, there are germs everywhere. If the H. pylori germs are killed, your stomach ulcer or gastritis can be cured. We know that germs develop an immunity to antibiotics, insects develop resistance to insecticides, rabbits develop resistance to myxomatosis. Make sure you get in between the fingers and under the nails where uninvited germs like to hang out. You will be safe around a house filled with snifflers and germs that are airborne from sneezers, and from flu symptom sufferers. When different germs trade resistances, you could end up with an untreatable disease. Dark, dank and musty, it was the perfect breeding ground for countless deadly germs and diseases. Show More Sentences The echinacea, lavender, and tea tree kill germs and the St. John's wort soothes the pain. Great for spots and stains, it kills mold and mildew, athlete's foot fungus, and staph and salmonella germs. I would only be inflicting my germs all over you and giving you a bad chest. Apparently, it's a synthesis of two germs from monkeys that a chimp caught by eating monkeys. Arm yourselves with a fly swat and batten down the hatches for the war against germs. The spread of these germs and the illnesses they cause can be prevented by practising good food hygiene. They questioned whether a central tank found on the trailers was a fermenter used to produce large quantities of deadly germs. Infectious disease experts say that the agents of greatest concern are the germs that cause anthrax, smallpox, plague, botulism and tularemia. This destroys more T-cells, which damages the body's ability to fight off invading germs and disease. Skin cleansing products help remove dirt and germs from the skin surface and pores. Young children are prone to picking up germs because they spend time crawling on the ground and don't wash their hands as frequently as adults. The donor blood must be free of any contamination or disease-carrying germs. She showed how you can identify and measure those nasty germs cryptosporidium and giardia. Recent studies show that most germs on the hands reside under the fingernails and cuticles. We stayed friends however, until he decided that girls had germs, and promptly settled for bugging the daylights out of me. Some disease-causing germs travel through the air in particles considerably smaller than droplets. Like many germs, the bacteria that cause botulism in infants are everywhere in the environment. Deadly germs infect nearly 2 million of the nation's hospital patients and kill close to 100,000 every year. The hands that treat patients and the instruments used to save lives could be spreading deadly germs. The pit may act as the breeding ground of disease-causing germs and mosquitoes. Show More Sentences Therefore, agricultural, herding societies will carry deadlier germs than will hunter-gatherers or people that farm only plants. They discovered acupuncture before it was known that blood circulates, or that germs cause disease. After TB germs enter the body, in most cases, the body's defences control the germs. With a little prevention, you can keep harmful germs out of your child's way! Food and water also can carry infectious germs, so be sure to wash fruits and vegetables thoroughly before eating. If your child gets infected again, it's more likely to be with these resistant germs. However, this doesn't kill bacteria and could in fact spread the invisible germs around kitchen surfaces. These bodies are obviously organized, resembling in all points the germs of the lowest organisms, and diverse in size and structure. The germs of these ideas, the roots of my own thought, are in Western philosophy and science rather than Oriental philosophy. He theorized that, along with the disinfectant qualities of the goldenseal, the heat from the tea had aided in killing germs. During the pelvic exam, the doctor may take samples to look for the germs that cause gonorrhea and chlamydia infections. This ingenious magnetic toilet descaler prevents minerals, germs and fungus from causing stains, rings and limescale build up in your toilet. Emetophobia routinely leads to a fear of germs and a compulsion to clean and wash. You get it by eating food contaminated with the excreta of people who are either infected themselves or who carry the germs. Washing hands is an important technique in controlling the spread of germs but we have very limited washbasins in our ward. Whatever he put on it to kill the germs made me hiss with discomfort. So I spent the day lying round like a nineteenth century heroine laid low by love and germs, and the evening wanly supervising the film studies test. You could be sitting there in absolutely untenable conditions, in water that is filled with disease and germs for months to come, walking through it, slogging through it. Industrialists claimed that although industrial pollution killed fish, it did not contain germs and indeed might act as a germicide and have a positive effect on water. Surgical debridement offers a quick solution to clean the wound from germs and sloughy infected tissues for practitioners trained to these techniques. Show More Sentences Various environmental factors count, and indeed the reasons why richer nations may have excessive asthma are far more than just exposure to germs in infancy. The face mask would certainly help keep your hands away from your nose and mouth, and might also intercept those germs the person next to you is coughing into the air. Manufacturers use our national fear of germs to sell antibacterial soap. He became petrified of germs, heights, the dark, crowds, even milk. It was a well-known fact that imperfect drainage, impure water, overcharged graveyards and want of ventilation, which was usual in places like this, carried the cholera germs. Clean bathroom surfaces also help prevent the spread of infectious germs. So, they ask, what if germs, looking to spread, drive people to perform rituals? Modern aircraft are equipped with devices that recirculate tired germs, keeping them aloft and breathable even hours after passengers have deplaned. Sufferers of leprosy and tuberculosis as well as carriers of the germs responsible for those diseases are particularly at risk of this false positive reaction. However, in a test of 13 different brands of vaccine in 1900, not one was found to be bacteriologically pure and in some, hundreds of colonies of teaming germs were found. Fortunately, I think that most people don't spit publicly and recognise the fact that there are enough germs flying about without people deliberately sharing their own. A series of recent experiments in America showed that immune system blood cells from tea drinkers responded five times faster to germs than the blood cells of coffee drinkers. Before Pasteur, dreadful smells and miasmas ruled the roost, the only accepted causes of illness, while after Pasteur, disease was all down to germs. But since pasteurisation kills not only germs but also useful bacteria, a culture is added to the milk in order to reintroduce all essential bacteria. The leaflets offer advice and tips on safe farm practices so that farmers can reduce the chances of they and their families contracting these germs. Get into having lots of showers and baths and washing your hands frequently to cut down on germs and reduce the transmission of illnesses like colds and flu. Plagues of bugs, germs and ants swarm through the pages of her books. He said that FDA's objective is to keep the germs vulnerable to enrofloxacin and other antibiotics in the class known as fluoroquinolones. True concrescence occurs when this union is during tooth development and may result from a lack of space or dislocation of tooth germs. There are viruses, e-mail viruses, worms and Trojan horses, and hackers out there building these germs don't stick to a single type. Show More Sentences Atishoo, atishoo, we all caught the germs in our handkerchiefs and then went to sterilise our hands, that last line should read. A goober told me it's ok for a moo to boobfeed in a pool because the chlorine will kill any germs. This project choice was made because, say the scientists, belly buttons are full of germs. Often, people call out the five-second rule because they think that if you get food off the floor quickly enough, there won't be any germs on it. Essentially, Panchin et al. have noticed that some rituals spread germs. By contrast, a new theory was advanced by contagionists who believed that diseases were transmitted by specific germs. Claustrophobia was fifth, with fear of dying and fear of heights, germs, strangers and vomit also appearing among the top 10 terrors. Remove everyday germs and neutralise cooking odours with our antibacterial handwash. Try Rebalance-a stressbuster which also tackles flu and cold germs, log on to www. Handshakes were the dirtiest greeting, followed by high-fives and then fist bumps, which transferred 90 percent fewer germs than handshakes. It is believed that washermen mix the laundry that pass on germs from contaminated clothes to others. Al-Mirghalani explained that once the vegetables are washed, one must wash one's hands to ensure that there are no germs on one's hands. Its active substance is released and enters the water softener during regeneration, where it kills any germs which may be present. The wheelchair user then faces the daunting problem of how to prevent the filth and germs from spreading in the house. Bioterrorism is the use, or threatened use, of germs, disease, or other biological agents as a weapon of terror. His group had been administering various natural signaling agents to white blood cells, which the immune system sends out to vanquish germs. Now we call out overworked GPs, or join the other sneezers and snufflers at the surgery and spread the germs. In addition, zoo animals sometimes eat pillbugs and garter snakes that carry germs like Salmonella, which can cause severe vomiting and diarrhea in humans. The tabletop system takes in water from a well or hand pump, for example, bathes it with ultraviolet radiation from a mercury-vapor lamp, and sends it out free of germs. Competitor products are simply either deodorisers or contact-only germicides which do not have the capability of killing germs throughout the space in a unit. Show More Sentences Of course we'd pass our germs around, be each other's great infector. The hygiene hypothesis of allergy states that a lack of early childhood exposure to infectious agents like germs and parasites could be causing the increase of food allergies. They give you the illusion of safety. I mean, look at all this area down in here. You get chicken spooge down in there, the germs check in, and they don't check out. This group, working independently of Gombart's team, had been focusing on macrophages, a type of white blood cell deployed by the immune system to gobble up and destroy germs. The test also revealed that mobile phones have 10 times the amount of germs and pathogens than a toilet seat which can cause nausea and stomach upsets. But in Sleeping Planet I found something different, an epic drama where salvation didn't depend on high-tech lasers or death rays or even deus ex machina items like germs. Three-year-old Tom of Mancot, Deeside, was born with a defect of his white blood cells known as chronic granulomatous disease which left him unable to fight off germs. The cushions also cover exposed nerve endings to relieve pain instantly and keep natural moisture in and germs out, allowing the skin to breathe and move. Examples from Classical Literature It is very strong in taste and smell, due to putrefactive germs that are added to the milk in its manufacture. They embrace and enfold the pathogenic germs with which they come in contact by what is known as an ameboid force. Among the pathogenic germs will be those of tuberculosis, contained in the sputum discharged in coughing or expectorating. There were also the germs of two more, one at Providence and the other on Rhode Island. No doubt there were germs in the early Iranian religion of a priestly system. This is a surgical dressing which has been so treated that it is free from germs. However, it should be remembered that green manure makes a good home for the growth of scab germs. It is thus that a dust of septic germs can be formed even in contact with air. Another is the possibility of a descent by leaps, through a metamorphosis of germs or a heterogenetic generation. It has been discovered recently that germs of infantile paralysis are conveyed by the housefly. This shows that the germs and their spores or seeds are the only causes of spoilage that we have to deal with in canning. Hence it is possible that the Myxosporidian sporoplasm really consists of two, incompletely-divided germs. A famous scientist holds that the universal ether bears vital germs which impinging upon a dead world would bring life to it. In that sense the germs of the Mahayana existed in the life-time of Gotama. The milk used for either butter or margarin should be free or freed from disease germs. Certain germs may produce ulcers, as the glanders bacilli, which cause the ulcerations on the nasal septum in glanders. They seem to be flying about in the air with other germs, and have found a sort of nidus among my melancholy fancies. The soil must be well ventilated to supply nitrogen for the nitrogen-fixing germs and oxygen for the nitrifying germs. To do their work well the nitrogen-fixing germs and the nitrifying germs require certain conditions. This they do not of their own power but through the aid of very minute plants called bacteria or nitrogen-fixing germs. Show More Sentences Its effectiveness is due to its amazing power to destroy disease germs, millions of which lodge in the oral cavity. Sulphurous acid and zinc chloride also failed to destroy all the germs of infection. But this is now known to be not the true remedial process with respect to the zymotic germs. Only in a few isolated cases has any contamination been traced to fever or other zymotic germs. In incipient cases the tubercles might be as readily absorbed as catgut ligature, and the germs, if any, fall to phagocytic prey. The germs of Popery, Sacerdotalism, Puseyism, are inevitably contained in this latter thesis. Cutting out the chancre will not cure the disease, because, as stated, the germs are already in the system. Yonder are some but budding, as if yet the frost lay on the honey-dew that protects the beamy germs. They had no heed for that breeding ground of the germs of every disease known to the human body. The germs of Bryozoa or of the fresh water sponges resist any amount of cold, but the full grown forms die at the first cold turn. Their windows are crusted with dust, their babies' milk bottles are yellow with germs. In the field the inventor uses an electric hoe to kill the germs of the thistle and deadly nightshade. It has now to be shewn that the germs of disease also retain their vital powers in a state of dormancy during a lengthened period. They are egg-shaped, about an inch in diameter, and furnish the germs or ovules. The germs of certain medusae seem to be equipotential in every respect, even in their cleavage stages. Thus the germs of rank, in these cases, are sown by the magic which is fetichism in action. These germs, brought from Venus, were the only cure for the terrible disease. It is interesting in this manner to perceive, so largely developed, the germs of extinction in the so-called powerful Anglo-Saxon family. Betaine and choline often occur together in the germs of many plants. Possibly, indeed, it had been Holgrave's purpose to let them die in their undeveloped germs. Show More Sentences A million times as many germs lurk in dishcloths, and three times as many on chopping boards. Be aware that doorknobs, telephones, and computer keyboards may harbor dangerous germs. At every act of swallowing, germs are carried into the stomach. An infectious material is one contaminated with germs of infection. Perhaps the germs of mimetic art may be looked for in this dance. On every side fruitful life was conveying germs, creating and nourishing. Mom was right to insist on all that hand washing, but a parental obsession with eradicating germs may be giving bacteria the upper hand. The children became sick after eating crepes and the salmonella germs were found on the egg shells that had been used to prepare the crepes. A disinfectant is an agent which destroys germs of infection. In it are the harmonic, melodic, and spiritual germs of modern music. Bacteria and germs will multiply in moist areas and can multiply on faucets, doorknobs, etc. He must have been so saturated with alcohol as to defy the lodgment of germs. The boiling kills any germs and assists in whitening the clothes. Disease germs had been found in a shipment of fruit juices from the Earth. Not only were they new to her, and contrary to her own beliefs, but she always felt in them germs of truth that threatened to unseat or modify her own convictions. She believed to her last day in old-fashioned remedies like rhubarb leaf, and made sounds of contempt over all this new-fangled talk about germs, and so on. We articled clerks, as germs of the patrician order of proctors, were treated with so much consideration, that I was almost my own master at all times. There would be meat that had tumbled out on the floor, in the dirt and sawdust, where the workers had tramped and spit uncounted billions of consumption germs. In like manner the evil which one does in the interval of a day prevents the germs of virtues which began to spring up again from developing themselves and destroys them. We have with great success made a practice of not leaving arsenic and strychnine, and typhoid and tuberculosis germs lying around for our children to be destroyed by. Show More Sentences For it was these bacteria, and germs, and microbes, and bacilli, cultured in the laboratories of the West, that had come down upon China in the rain of glass. Find more words! 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