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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

... disease on the parent. It is 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 ...

— Applied Eugenics • Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson

... in tones despotic, I must dig 'neath basement floors, Lest diseases called zymotic Enter in at all my pores. PARKES, of sanitation master, Wanted "purity and light;" I'm content to risk disaster, ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, August 22, 1891 • Various

... incident in childhood to the human body. Even on this theory, he was bound to handle it with the same calmness which he would have expected to find in a pathological treatise by a physician. Who would write of the sweating sickness with indignation, or describe zymotic diseases with resentment? Condorcet's pertinacious anger against theology is just as irrational as this would be, from the scientific point of view which he pretends to have assumed. Theology, ...

— Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) - Essay 3: Condorcet • John Morley

Words linked to "Zymotic" : zymolytic