zymotic

American  

[zahy-mot-ik] / zaɪˈmɒt ɪk /

adjective

1. pertaining to or caused by or as if by fermentation.

2. of or relating to zymosis.

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zymotic British  

/ zaɪˈmɒtɪk /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or causing fermentation

2. relating to or caused by infection; denoting or relating to an infectious disease

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Other Word Forms

• zymotically adverb

Etymology

Origin of zymotic

1835–45; < Greek zȳmōtikós causing fermentation; see zymosis, -tic

Example Sentences

Epidemic diseases, and the zymotic diseases in particular, have, then, most likely their origin in some local odours which inhibit the action of our specific organic odours.

From Five Years of Theosophy by Various

The fears of an outbreak of fever or other zymotic diseases appear to be based on the alleged presence of decomposed animal matter, human and of lower type, concealed amid the débris.

From The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin by Walker, James Herbert

Mere elevation of temperature during the invasion and the relapse, even though to an extreme height, is not attended with the danger which even a somewhat lower degree would indicate in other zymotic diseases.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

The rodents get acclimatised, unless it be that instinct impels them to take some sort of vegetable or other preventive of zymotic and mephitic diseases.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 62, Jan 13, 1872 by Various

The more useful and searching comparison between cases of sickness, instead of deaths, and meteorological phenomena has yet to be accomplished on a large scale in this country, and especially as regards zymotic diseases.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 by Various