Presanitary
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Before sanitation. not-comparable
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From pre- + sanitary.
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