zymotic
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ζυμωτικός (zumōtikós, “causing fermentation”), from ζυμοῦν (zumoûn).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /zʌɪˈmɒtɪk/
Adjective
zymotic (not comparable)
- (pathology, now historical) Infectious, contagious, of diseases originally regarded as being caused by a process similar to fermentation.
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 394:
- Farr concluded that overcrowding was the main determinant of high mortality from what (following Liebig) he style ‘zymotic diseases’.
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 394:
- Of or causing fermentation.
Derived terms
- zymotically (adv)
References
Zymotic disease on Wikipedia.Wikipedia- zymotic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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