- MICROZYME
- a minute organism which acts as a ferment when it enters the blood and produces zymotic diseases.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
MICROZYME
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Microzyme — Mi cro*zyme, n. [Micro + Gr. zy mh leaven.] (Biol.) A micro[ o]rganism which is supposed to act like a ferment in causing or propagating certain infectious or contagious diseases; a pathogenic bacterial organism. [obsolete] [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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Zymotic 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 … Wikipedia
