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zymotic, a. (n.)|zaɪˈmɒtɪk|
[ad. Gr. ζυµωτικός causing fermentation, f. ζυµοῦν: see zymosis.]
A general epithet for infectious diseases, originally because regarded as being caused by a process analogous to fermentation (cf. zymosis); pertaining to this theory of disease; causing such disease.
1842W. Farr in 4th Ann. Rep. Reg.-Gen. 201 The property of communicating their action, and effecting analogous transformations in other bodies, is..characteristic in these diseases, which it is proposed therefore to call..zymotic. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour (1861) II. 395/2 The zymotic doctrine of the Board of Health as to the cause of cholera. 1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 528 Since many morbid processes are analogous, if not akin, to fermentative processes,..the term zymotic has been applied to them,—a term, however, to be avoided rather than recommended.
b. In etymological sense: Causing or consisting in fermentation, fermentative.
1874Garrod & Baxter Mat. Med. 145 The zymotic action of yeast.
c. transf. Containing putrefactive germs.
1881Tyndall Ess. Floating Matter Air 208 An éprouvette containing one cubic centimeter of cold water, previously ascertained to be zymotic, was evaporated to dryness.
B. n. A zymotic disease.
1842W. Farr in 4th Ann. Rep. Reg.-Gen. 201 A single word, such as Zymotics, is required to replace..the long periphrasis ‘epidemic, endemic, and contagious diseases’. 1859Househ. Words 8 Jan. 122/2 People who have died of Zymotics. 1916Lancet 8 Jan. 112/1 Health of Belfast... In 1914 there were 51 notifications of typhus..; not a case of this zymotic has been reported in 1915.
Hence zyˈmotically adv.
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour (1861) II. 385/2 Whether this mass of filth be, zymotically, the cause of cholera. |