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Zymotic adj.

Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation.

(Med.) Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases. See Zymotic disease, below.

Zymotic disease (Med.), any epidemic, endemic, contagious, or sporadic affection which is produced by some morbific principle or organism acting on the system like a ferment. Note: Now (2004) referred to as an infectious disease. PJC

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"Zymotic" Quotes from Famous Books

... vol. iv, p. 283. For suppression of chemical teaching by the Parliament of Paris, see ibid., vol. xii, pp. 14, 15. For proofs that the world is steadily working toward great discoveries as to the cause and prevention of zymotic diseases and their propogation, see Beale's Disease Germs, Baldwin Latham's Sanitary Engineering, Michel Levy's Traite a Hygiene Publique et Privee. For a summary of the bull Spondent pariter, and for an example of injury done by it, see Schneider, Geschichte der Alchemie, ...

— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White

... possible to inherit a tendency to headaches or to chronic alcoholism; and it is possible to inherit a lack of resistance to common diseases such as malaria, small-pox or measles; but actually to inherit a zymotic disease as an inherent genetic trait, is impossible,—is, in fact, a ...

— Applied Eugenics • Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson

... There are therefore none of the objections of a city in respect to overcrowding, and no manufactories or smelters to pollute the air. The death-rate, exclusive of death from consumption, is only 5.6 per 1000; from zymotic diseases, ...

— The Truth About America • Edward Money

Words linked to "Zymotic" : zymolytic, zymosis