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Webster 1913 Edition
Pasteurism
Pas-teur′ism
,Noun.
[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.
Definition 2024
Pasteurism
Pasteurism
English
Proper noun
Pasteurism
- (dated) The prevention of certain diseases by successive inoculations with an attenuated virus of gradually increasing strength.
- (dated) pasteurisation