adjective
- not infected; free from infection or disease-causing organisms
Usage: medical
Examples
- The doctor examined both infected and noninfected tissue samples.
- Noninfected wounds heal much faster than contaminated ones.
- The laboratory kept noninfected cell cultures separate from the test samples.
- Surgeons must maintain a noninfected environment during operations.
- The noninfected patients were moved to a different ward.
- Researchers compared noninfected mice to those exposed to the virus.