zymosis

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Fermentation.
• noun The process of infection.
• noun An infectious disease, especially one caused by a fungus.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Fermentation of any kind. Also zymolysis.
• noun An infectious or contagious disease.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun rare, rare A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.
• noun rare A zymotic disease.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.
• noun A zymotic disease.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun (medicine) the development and spread of an infectious disease (especially one caused by a fungus)
• 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