different between zymotic vs zymad

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (zum?tikós, “causing fermentation”), from ?????? (zumoûn).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /za??m?t?k/

Adjective

zymotic (not comparable)

1. (pathology, now historical) Infectious, contagious, of diseases originally regarded as being caused by a process similar to fermentation.
   • 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, London: G. Newbold, Volume 2, p. 395,^[1]

     […] these […] accounts by no means bear out the zymotic doctrine of the Board of Health as to the cause of cholera; for where the zymotic influences from the sewers were the worst, […] the cholera was the least destructive.

   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 394:

     Farr concluded that overcrowding was the main determinant of high mortality from what (following Liebig) he style ‘zymotic diseases’.

2. Of or causing fermentation.

Derived terms

• zymotically (adv)

Related terms

• zyme (n)
• zymosis (n)

References

• Zymotic disease on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• zymotic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Noun

zymad (plural zymads)

1. (medicine) The organism responsible for a zymotic or infectious disease; the contagium vivum.