zymoticadj.n.
/zʌɪˈmɒtɪk/, U.S. /zaɪˈmɑdɪk/ A. adj.
a. A general epithet for infectious diseases, originally because regarded as being caused by a process analogous to fermentation (cf. zymosis n.); pertaining to this theory of disease; causing such disease.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [adjective] > infectious
contagiousc1374
infectivea1398
smitting?c1450
infected1480
infectuous1495
infecting1539
infectious1575
smittle1583
catching1594
contaminous1599
taking1608
communicative1741
malignant1822
contaminative1826
zymotic1842
smittling1845
infectant1855
autoinfective1874
catchy1884
toxo-infectious1907
postinfectious1913
1842 W. Farr in 4th Ann. Rep. Registrar-Gen. Births, Deaths, & Marriages Eng. 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.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 395/2 The zymotic doctrine of the Board of Health as to the cause of cholera.
1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. 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.
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the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > chemical processes or reactions > [adjective] > fermentation > causing or consisting in
zymotic1874
1874 A. B. Garrod & E. B. Baxter Essentials Materia Medica (ed. 4) 145 The zymotic action of yeast.
c. transferred. Containing putrefactive germs.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > [adjective] > polluted with germs or disease
infecta1382
infected1534
zymotic1881
germy1884
unsterile1892
1881 J. Tyndall Ess. Floating Matter of 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.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [noun] > infection > infectious disease
infection?a1425
smit1838
smittle1838
zymotic1842
return case1856
1842 W. Farr in 4th Ann. Rep. Registrar-Gen. Births, Deaths, & Marriages Eng. 201 A single word, such as Zymotics, is required to replace..the long periphrasis ‘epidemic, endemic, and contagious diseases’.
1859 Househ. Words 8 Jan. 122/2 People who have died of Zymotics.
1916 Lancet 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.
Derivatives
zyˈmotically adv.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [adverb] > infectiously
infectiously1609
contagiously1615
diseasedly1829
zymotically1851
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 385/2 Whether this mass of filth be, zymotically, the cause of cholera.
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