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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Pasteurism

· Pas·teur·ism · IPA
01 n. A method of treatment, devised by Pasteur, for preventing certain diseases, as hydrophobia, by successive inoculations with an attenuated v…
  1. 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. 2.
    Pasteurization.