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21malaria — ma*la ri*a, n. [It., contr. fr. malaaria bad air. See {Malice}, and Air.] 1. Air infected with some noxious substance capable of engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers;… …
22Zyme — yme, n. [Gr. ? leaven.] [1913 Webster] 1. A ferment. [1913 Webster] 2. (Med.) The morbific principle of a zymotic disease. Quain. [1913 Webster] …
23Zymotic — y*mot ic, a. [Gr. ? causing to ferment, fr. ? to ferment, ? ferment, leaven.] [1913 Webster] 1. Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation. [1913 Webster] 2. (Med.) Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases. See {Zymotic… …
24Zymotic disease — Zymotic y*mot ic, a. [Gr. ? causing to ferment, fr. ? to ferment, ? ferment, leaven.] [1913 Webster] 1. Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation. [1913 Webster] 2. (Med.) Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases. See… …
25Zymotic disease — Zymotic diseases (for the Greek language term zumoun for ferment ), an obsolete term in medicine, formerly applied to the class of acute infectious maladies,[1] presumed to be due to some virus or organism which acts in the system like a ferment …
26Fermentation theory — The fermentation theory of disease is the (now obsolete) concept that many diseases, including the diseases which were epidemic, endemic and contagious, owe their origin to the presence of a morbific principle in the system, acting in a manner… …
27morbifically — adverb In a morbific way …
28morbidity — noun a) The quality of being unhealthful, morbid b) The incidence of a disease, as a rate of a population which is affected. Syn: morbidness, unwholesomeness See Also …
29delitescence — Rarely used term for: 1. Sudden subsidence of symptoms; disappearance of a tumor or a cutaneous lesion. 2. Period of incubation of an infectious disease. [L. delitesco, to lie hidden away] * * * del·i·tes·cence (del″ĭ tesґəns) [L …
30pathogenic, pathogenetic — Causing disease or abnormality. SYN: morbific, morbigenous, nosogenic, nosopoietic …
