zymosis
發酵,發酵作用,酵性病
Zy·mo·sis, n. Med. (a) A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed. (b) A zymotic disease. [R.]
Note: The medical usage is now (2004) archaic. -- PJC.
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zymosis
n 1: a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to
break down into simpler substances; especially, the
anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol [syn: zymolysis,
fermentation, fermenting, ferment]
2: (medicine) the development and spread of an infectious
disease (especially one caused by a fungus)