zymosishttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zymosis_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezymosis, n.
First published 1921; not fully revised

zymosisnoun

  1. 1842–
    Fermentation; spec. the morbid process which constitutes a zymotic disease, regarded as analogous to or involving fermentation.
    1. 1842
      Zymosis fermentation, and zyma ferment, may also be employed in English, not in the sense which they have in Greek, but as general designations of the morbid processes and their exciters.
      W. Farr in 4th Annual Rep. Registrar-Gen. Births, Deaths, & Marriages Eng. 201 (note)
    2. 1842
      Some..kinds of matter (zymin) are reproduced in the organization after they have been destroyed by transformation (zymosis) in attacks of disease.
      W. Farr in 4th Annual Rep. Registrar-Gen. Births, Deaths, & Marriages Eng. 202
    3. 1876
      As all fermentations are correlative of the growth and multiplication of these minute bodies, carbolic acid, by destroying their activity, arrests zymosis.
      R. Bartholow, Practical Treatise on Materia Medica iii. 485
    figurative
    1. 1876
      In the Elizabethan Age there was a dramatic zymosis, when all the genius ran in that direction.
      R. W. Emerson, Eloquence in Works (1906) vol. III. 195

zymosis, n. was first published in 1921; not fully revised.

zymosis, n. was last modified in December 2024.