Definition of Fermentative

1. a. Causing, or having power to cause, fermentation; produced by fermentation; fermenting; as, a fermentative process.

Definition of Fermentative

1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, causing or undergoing fermentation ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fermentative

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Fermentative

1. Causing or having the ability to cause fermentation. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fermentative

ferm
fermacy
fermata
fermatas
fermate
ferme
ferment
fermentability
fermentable
fermental
fermentation
fermentation Lactobacillus casei factor
fermentation alcohol
fermentation substrates
fermentations
fermentative (current term)
fermentative dyspepsia
fermentatively
fermented
fermenter
fermenters
fermenting
fermentologist
fermentor
fermentors
ferments
fermerere
fermes
fermillet
fermillets

Literary usage of Fermentative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Physiology of Plants: A Treatise Upon the Metabolism and Sources of by Wilhelm Pfeffer (1900)
"General View of Certain fermentative Activities. The power of exciting fermentation and the relation of the latter to growth varies in different ..."

2. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1907)
"THE DIFFERENTIATION OF STREPTOCOCCI BY MEANS OF fermentative TESTS.1 BY LEO ... Working upon the assumption that the fermentative powers are biological ..."

3. The Common Bacterial Infections of the Digestive Tract and the Intoxications by Christian Archibald Herter (1907)
"STANDPOINT OF THEIR PRODUCTS IT is helpful to review the fermentative and ... I shall use the word "fermentative" to designate the decompositions of ..."

4. Ferments and Their Actions by Karl Oppenheimer (1901)
"The earliest history of the transformation of fermentable sugars by yeast completely coincides with the history of fermentative processes in general. ..."

5. The Journal of Infectious Diseases by Infectious Diseases Society of America, John Rockefeller McCormick Memorial Fund, John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases (1914)
"EXPERIMENTS ON THE VARIABILITY OF THE fermentative REACTION OF BACTERIA, ESPECIALLY THE STREPTOCOCCI * WILLIAM C. THRO (From the Department of Clinical ..."

6. Lectures on Plant Physiology by Ludwig Jost (1907)
"We must also inquire what other fermentative processes exist, since the poisonous effect of the chief product has apparently a definite significance apart ..."

7. An Introduction to Vegetable Physiology by Joseph Reynolds Green (1900)
"The fermentative activity of protoplasm was alluded to at the opening of this chapter. The living substance of many cells is capable of setting up various ..."

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