ZYMOGENIC

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Pertaining to, or formed by, a zymogene.

2.
a.

Capable of producing a definite zymogen or ferment. Zymogenic organism (Biol.), a microörganism, such as the yeast plant of the Bacterium lactis, which sets up certain fermentative processes by which definite chemical products are formed; -- distinguished from a pathogenic organism. Cf. Micrococcus.