Treated or disinfected with carbolic acid, especially referring to medical instruments or surgical materials.
Past participle of carbolize (American spelling). From carbolic (relating to phenol/carbolic acid) + -ized. This American spelling variant parallels the British 'carbolised,' both emerging from 19th-century medical terminology.
A carbolized scalpel in 1880 was basically the equivalent of a sterile surgical tool today—the shift to carbolized instruments directly caused surgical death rates to drop by 90% within a decade!
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