Definify.com

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

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