Sterilization
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Sterilization can refer to:
- Sterilisation (ecology), the process by which an agent renders an environment sterile
- Soil steam sterilization, a farming technique that sterilizes soil with steam in open fields or greenhouses
- Sterilization (microbiology), the elimination of microbiological organisms to achieve asepsis, a sterile microbial environment
- Sterilization (surgical procedure) may refer to:
- an operation which renders an animal or human unable to reproduce:
- Animal sterilisation (surgical procedure), also known as neutering
- Human sterilisation (surgical procedure), a medical procedure
- the sterilisation of surgical instruments
- an operation which renders an animal or human unable to reproduce:
- Sterilization (economics), a term referring to central bank operations aimed at neutralizing foreign exchange operations' impact on domestic money supply and to generally offset potentially adverse consequences of large capital flows