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Zymotic

adjective

Of or relating to or causing fermentation. Synonym: zymolytic.

Relating to or caused by infection.

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"Zymotic" Quotes from Famous Books

... one-third, since the first establishment of life insurances, one hundred and fifty years ago; every influence of this kind, I say, saves persons alive who would otherwise have died; and the great majority of these will be, even in surgical and zymotic cases, those of least resisting power; who are thus preserved to produce in time a still less ...

— Health and Education • Charles Kingsley

... from 80 to 125 feet in width. 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

... discussed together their misadventures in the past—how such an one was alive at dawn and dead ere the dusk, and with what shrieks and struggles such another had given up his soul under the Afghan knife. Death was a new and horrible thing to the sons of mechanics who were used to die decently of zymotic disease; and their careful conservation in barracks had done nothing to make them look upon it ...

— Indian Tales • Rudyard Kipling

Words linked to "Zymotic" : zymosis