zymosis

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English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for zymosis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Etymology

From zym- +‎ -osis.

Noun

zymosis (plural zymoses)

  1. A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.
  2. A zymotic disease.

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