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Zymosis

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.
  2. 2
    (medicine) the development and spread of an infectious disease (especially one caused by a fungus) wordnet
  3. 3
    A zymotic disease.
  4. 4
    a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol wordnet

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From zym- + -osis.

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