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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Origin of zymotic
1835–45; < Greek zȳmōtikós causing fermentation; see zymosis, -tic
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As in other zymotic diseases, the mortality from relapsing fever is highest during the early period of an epidemic, and the type of the disease grows milder as the epidemic declines.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Just as the study of hysteria deals mainly with instabilities in the threshold of consciousness, so does the study of zymotic disease deal mainly with instabilities in the constitution of the blood.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
Heart-clot, or cardiac thrombosis, appears to occur more frequently than in any other acute zymotic disease, with the exception of diphtheria.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
We can cite a host of zymotic diseases the occurrence of which once serves as a protection against future attacks.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
The increase of zymotic diseases is admitted, but there has been a corresponding increase of power in many lines that will more than counteract this baleful growth.
From Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro by Culp, Daniel Wallace
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