ZYMOTIC DISEASE

Definition: ZYMOTIC DISEASE

ZYMOTIC DISEASE

1. (Med.), any epidemic, endemic, contagious, or sporadic affection which is produced by some morbific principle or organism acting on the system like a ferment.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Specialty Definition: Zymotic disease

Zymotic diseases (for the Greek language term zumoun for "ferment"), an obosolete term in medicine, formerly applied to the class of acute infectious maladies. Note: this term was obsolete even in 1911, the date of the original version of the text below:

As originally employed by Dr W. Farr, of the British Registrar-General's department, the term included the diseases which were "epidemic, endemic and contagious," and were regarded as owing their origin to the presence of a morbific principle in the system, acting in a manner analogous to, although not identical with, the process of fermentation. A large number of diseases were accordingly included under this designation. The term, however, came to be restricted in medical nomenclature to the chief fevers and contagious diseases (e.g. typhus and typhoid fevers, smallpox, scarlet fever, measles, erysipelas, cholera, whooping-cough, diphtheria, &c.). The science of bacteriology has displaced the old fermentation theory, and the term has practically dropped out of use.

From an old 1911 encyclopedia

Modern Translation: ZYMOTIC DISEASE

Language		Translations for "ZYMOTIC DISEASE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		заразна болест (pestilence, zymosis), епидемична болест (zymosis), инфекциозна болест (zymosis). (various references)

Pig Latin		ymoticzay iseaseday
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: ZYMOTIC DISEASE

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	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-i-m-o-s-s-t-y-z"
	-4 letters: dissociate, semeiotics, systemized.
	-5 letters: dacoities, decimates, demitasse, dioecisms, domestics, dystocias, ecdysiast, ecosystem, edacities, iotacisms, mediacies, medicates, mestizoes, misseated, modesties, mosaicist, semeiotic, semiotics, societies, systemize, toadyisms.
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Definition: ZYMOTIC DISEASE

ZYMOTIC DISEASE

Crosswords: ZYMOTIC DISEASE

Specialty Definition: Zymotic disease

Modern Translation: ZYMOTIC DISEASE

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Anagrams: ZYMOTIC DISEASE

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