Putrefaction vs. Putrification — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Putrefaction and Putrification
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Which is correct: Putrefaction or Putrification
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Putrefaction
Decomposition of organic matter, especially protein, by microorganisms, resulting in production of foul-smelling matter.
Putrefaction
Putrefaction is the fifth stage of death, following pallor mortis, algor mortis, rigor mortis, and livor mortis. This process references the breaking down of a body of an animal such as a human post-mortem (meaning after death).
Putrefaction
The process of decay or rotting in a body or other organic matter
The breeze shifted and we caught the stench of putrefaction
Putrefaction
An amount of putrefied matter or an odor produced by such matter.
Putrefaction
The act of causing to rot; the anaerobic splitting of proteins by bacteria and fungi with the formation of malodorous, incompletely oxidized products.
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Putrefaction
Rotten material.
Putrefaction
The state of being rotten.
Putrefaction
The act or the process of putrefying; the offensive decay of albuminous or other matter.
Putrefaction
The condition of being putrefied; also, that which putrefied.
Putrefaction
Decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
Putrefaction
(biology) decaying caused by bacterial or fungal action
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