zymotic

[ zahy-mot-ik ]

adjective

1. pertaining to or caused by or as if by fermentation.
2. of or relating to zymosis.

zymotic

/ zaɪˈmɒtɪk /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or causing fermentation
2. relating to or caused by infection; denoting or relating to an infectious disease

Derived Forms

• zyˈmotically, adverb

Other Words From

• zy·moti·cal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of zymotic¹

1835–45; < Greek zȳmōtikós causing fermentation; zymosis, -tic

Example Sentences

With the setting of the sun a thick mist arose--one of those humid tropical mists that are responsible for malaria and other zymotic diseases peculiar to the Torrid Zone.

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Most of those diseases in which fever occurs as one of the joint effects of the cause of the disease, are included among the infective or zymotic classes.

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Just as the study of hysteria deals mainly with instabilities in the threshold of consciousness, so does the study of zymotic disease deal mainly with instabilities in the constitution of the blood.

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The rodents get acclimatised, unless it be that instinct impels them to take some sort of vegetable or other preventive of zymotic and mephitic diseases.

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Acute inflammatory conditions may be secondary to zymotic diseases such as diphtheria, pyaemia, typhus fever and others.

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