zymotic
/zʌɪˈmɒtɪk
/adjective archaic
Relating to or denoting contagious disease regarded as developing after infection, by a process analogous to fermentation.Using this information, Nightingale computed a mortality rate of 1,174 per 10,000 with 1,023 per 10,000 being from zymotic diseases....
- Later nineteenth-century public health, in contrast, initially based on miasmatic, then zymotic theories of disease emphasized broad based environmental rather than moral reform.
- Cholera, for example, was caused by the as yet unidentified zymotic material ‘cholerine’.
