Having the property or quality of preventing or slowing down the decay and decomposition of organic material.
From anti- (against) + putrefactive (decay-causing). This adjective form emerged in chemistry and medicine to describe substances that preserve rather than destroy tissue.
Embalming fluids are antiputrefactive, using formaldehyde to essentially pause the body's natural decomposition—a gruesome but effective application that helped develop modern forensic science and anatomy studies.
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