PASTEURISM

Etymology

Proper noun

Pasteurism

(dated) The prevention of certain diseases by successive inoculations with an attenuated virus of gradually increasing strength.

(dated) pasteurisation

Anagrams

• impastures, marsupites

Source: Wiktionary


Pas*teur"ism, n. Etym: [Fr. Pasteur, a French scientist.]

1. A method of treatment, devised by Pasteur, for preventing certain diseases, as hydrophobia, by successive inoculations with an attenuated virus of gradually increasing strength.

2. Pasteurization.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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