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7 letters · 21 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol
noun (medicine) the development and spread of an infectious disease (especially one caused by a fungus)
originFrom zym- + -osis.
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