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
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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
Is it a specific deleterious material, a miasmatic or contagious disease-poison, or, as it is generally expressed, a zymotic agent?
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Surely young men and women should be taught something of the causes of zymotic disease, and of scrofula, consumption, rickets, dipsomania, cerebral derangement, and such like.
From Health and Education by Charles Kingsley
Zyme, zīm, n. a ferment: a disease-germ—the supposed specific cause of a zymotic disease.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Who would write of the sweating sickness with indignation, or describe zymotic diseases with resentment?
From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 3: Condorcet by John Morley
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