soilage
nounEtymology From soil (“to dirty”) + -age.
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Act, process, or instance of soiling.
- The fear of defilement, violation of self and reification, is revealed by the way the respondents described the burglaries in which there was neither breakage, soilage, or, sometimes, any disorder. In such cases, burglary is called work and is said tot have been "cleanly done"[.]1976, Irwin Altman, Human Behavior and Environment: Home environments, page 78:
- The majority of military surgeons treating acute injuries of the colon tended to exteriorize the wound as an artificial anus to prevent further soilage of the peritoneal cavity.1979, George Tom Shires, Care of the Trauma Patient, McGraw-Hill Companies:
3 more examples
- Collections need to be drained, the lung decorticated, and ongoing soilage of the chest controlled. In some cases, percutaneous drains are adequate to obtain source control. In more significant leaks, operative assessment may be required […]2020, Virginia R Litle, Robert J Canelli, Peri-operative Management of the Thoracic Patient An Issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics, E-Book, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 361:
- Anal soilage or leakage (usually not solid stool incontinence) is a manifestation noted frequently by both the patient and the examining physician.2012, H. Randolph Bailey, Richard P. Billingham, Michael J. Stamos, Michael J. Snyder, Colorectal Surgery E-Book, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 490:
- Minor incontinence (fecal soilage) includes incontinence to flatus and occasional seepage of liquid stool.2018, Frank J. Domino, Robert A. Baldor, Jeremy Golding, Mark B. Stephens, The 5-Minute Clinical Consult 2019, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN:
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State or condition of being soiled.
- Photograph showing soilage (discoloration) of cotton drill […]1985, Gardner S. Haynes, Laboratory Corrosion Tests and Standards: A Symposium by ASTM Committee G-1 on Corrosion of Metals, Bal Harbour, FL, 14-16 Nov. 1983, ASTM International, →ISBN, page 271: