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Definition of zymotic in English: zymoticadjective zʌɪˈmɒtɪk archaic Relating to or denoting contagious disease regarded as developing after infection, by a process analogous to fermentation. Example sentencesExamples - Later nineteenth-century public health, in contrast, initially based on miasmatic, then zymotic theories of disease emphasized broad based environmental rather than moral reform.
- An important supplement to the annual report of the Registrar-General has just been issued, showing the extent to which zymotic diseases have prevailed in the last 10 years.
- Using this information, Nightingale computed a mortality rate of 1,174 per 10,000 with 1,023 per 10,000 being from zymotic diseases.
- Cholera, for example, was caused by the as yet unidentified zymotic material ‘cholerine’.
Rhymesabiotic, amniotic, antibiotic, chaotic, demotic, despotic, erotic, exotic, homoerotic, hypnotic, idiotic, macrobiotic, meiotic, narcotic, neurotic, osmotic, patriotic, prebiotic, psychotic, quixotic, robotic, sclerotic, semiotic, symbiotic, zygotic |