zymotic
Americanadjective
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of, relating to, or causing fermentation
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relating to or caused by infection; denoting or relating to an infectious disease
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Etymology
Origin of zymotic
1835–45; < Greek zȳmōtikós causing fermentation; see zymosis, -tic
Example Sentences
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There was, however, nothing in our investigations to invalidate any direct testimony which tends to show that, in individual cases, a real connection between puerperal fever and the zymotic diseases may exist.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
You have no zymotic diseases, no poverty, no drunkenness, no crime, no police.
From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by William James
Most of those diseases in which fever occurs as one of the joint effects of the cause of the disease, are included among the infective or zymotic classes.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Doctors vow, in tones despotic, I must dig 'neath basement floors, Lest diseases called zymotic Enter in at all my pores.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 22, 1891 by Various
Not only does it show that one's vital organs are in good running order, but it is probably the only means now available of indicating strains which are resistant to zymotic disease.
From Applied Eugenics by Paul Popenoe
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