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Zymotic   Listen
adjective
Zymotic  adj.  
1.
Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation.
2.
(Med.) Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases. See Zymotic disease, below.
Zymotic disease (Med.), any epidemic, endemic, contagious, or sporadic affection which is produced by some morbific principle or organism acting on the system like a ferment. Note: Now (2004) referred to as an infectious disease. PJC





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"Zymotic" Quotes from Famous Books



... together under one leader. Instead of training a few athletes, the real problem now presented is how to raise the general level of vitality so that children and youth may be fitted to stand the strain of modern civilization, resist zymotic diseases, and overcome the deleterious influences of city life. The almost immediate effects of systematic training are surprising and would hardly be inferred from the annual increments tabled earlier in this chapter. Sandow was a rather weakly boy and ...
— Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene • G. Stanley Hall


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