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n. - (medicine) the development and spread of an infectious disease (especially one caused by a fungus); A process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances.

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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.
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