Klingon word: woj Part of speech: verb Definition: sterilize _______________________________________________ Published in HQ 1.3:9 and first published in {veS QonoS} 1990 - the newsletter of Mortas-Te-Kaase, a defunct Klingon fan club - with other medical vocabulary: Hergh QaywI' pneumatic hypo, hypo-spray (n) HerghwI' [short form] (n) muvwI' suture (n) tuj muvwI' thermo-suture (n) roSHa'moH paralyze (v) yatlh be pregnant (v) 'uD Haqtaj laser scalpel (n) 'uD'a' laser (n) SEE: Say' be clean (v) Say'moH wash (v) Say'moHwI' tlhagh soap (n) SEE ALSO: lam be dirty (v) lamHa'choHmoH get something cleaned (v) watlh be pure (v) nIt be plain, pure, uncorrupted, unsullied (v) TREK TRIVIA: Fleet Admiral Krell threatened to sterilize (i.e. wipe out) Qu'Vat Colony after Dr Antaak's experiments with Klingon Augments at the genetic research facility there produced a highly contagious and fatal plague. (ENT "Affliction" & "Divergence") The original mission of the alien Tan Ru probe was to gather and sterilize soil samples as a prelude to colonization. By 2267 Earth's Nomad probe’s new mission had become to seek out and sterilize imperfect biological infestations (life forms). (TOS "The Changeling") -- Voragh Ca'Non Master of the Klingons