The purple fluid of another failed vaccine trickles down sterile surfaces.
Flowing at a depth of a foot or so across the sterile surface of Vagabond, the strange flood of energy did not appear to radiate any kind of heat.
Various forms of instrumentation, including ventilation, inhibit the usual means of clearing organisms from normally sterile epithelial surfaces.
Chrysocystidium are present on the hymenium, on the sterile surfaces of young specimens, and as endocystidia.
And it was these same eyes which regarded her now as if she were some specimen, stripped and laid out on a sterile surface, ready for dissection.
And the hotel lobby with its polished, sterile surfaces and strong smell of commercial-grade cleaning agents was transformed into a church.
Gerrard shows how, with these new facilities, the sterile surface of this land has once again been returned to productivity, packed with remote-controlled batteries that power hungry cities.
True she had a general idea of the grey, scarred, sterile surface of the Moon, but she had no knowledge of its detailed topography.
The sterile and fertile surfaces of the fruit body are almost the same color, transparent reddish-orange to flesh pink or flesh orange, at other times more purplish-red.
The sterile outer surface is smooth or often hairy, the hairs sometimes forming a conspicuous margin to discs.