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发酵;发酵作用;发酵病;传染病
Noun
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
2. (medicine) the development and spread of an infectious disease (especially one caused by a fungus)
New Latin, from Greek zymōsis, from zymoun to ferment + -sis
1 That great chemist did not imagine that a true zymosis or fermentation occurs under the action of a virus upon the human economy.
2 For instance, you might get zymosis, or attempt to write like Zola, at almost any time, yet those two dangers are down at the bottom of the list.
3 According to Emerson there is a mental zymosis or contagion prevailing in society at such epochs.
4 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.