Definition of "zymosis" []

• Fermentation. (noun)
• Medicine The process of infection. (noun)
• Medicine An infectious disease, especially one caused by a fungus. (noun)

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• "There were no more diseases after zymosis, so I concluded there was nothing else the matter with me."
• "Gout, in its most malignant stage, it would appear, had seized me without my being aware of it; and zymosis I had evidently been suffering with from boyhood."
• "According to Emerson there is a mental zymosis or contagion prevailing in society at such epochs."