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Zymosis

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Noun

1. ferment, fermentation, fermenting, zymolysis, zymosis

a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol

2. zymosis

(medicine) the development and spread of an infectious disease (especially one caused by a fungus)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Zymosis

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noun plural -ses (-siːz)
1. medicine
a. 
any infectious disease
b. 
the development process or spread of such a disease
2. biochemistry another name for zymolysis

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Zymosis

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nounWord forms: plural zyˈmoˌses (zaɪˈmoʊˌsiz ; zīmōˈsēzˌ)
1. 
fermentation
2. 
the development and spread of a zymotic disease
3. 
any infectious disease

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Zymosis

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n. pl. zy·mo·ses (-sēz)
Archaic
1. Fermentation.
2. Medicine An infectious disease or disease process having similarities to fermentation.

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