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presanitary

presanitary adjective: before sanitation.

Adjective

presanitary (not comparable)

  1. Before sanitation.
    • It was my fate to commence my career in the medical service forty years ago in the presanitary days, long before the introduction of modern methods of diagnosis, at two of the most unhealthy stations in the whole of India — Bellary and Secunderabad.1881, International Congress of Medicine, Transactions of the 1st, 2nd, 4th-17th Congress, page 541

Origin of presanitary

From pre- + sanitary.

Questions about presanitary

What does presanitary mean?
Presanitary means before sanitation.
What part of speech is presanitary?
Presanitary is an adjective.

Words near presanitary in the dictionary

  1. presampling
  2. presanctified
  3. presanctify
  4. presanction
  5. presanctions
  6. presanitary
  7. presarcopenia
  8. presartorial
  9. presas
  10. presatellite
  11. presatiate

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