2. Verb. (third-person singular of ferment) ¹
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Definition of Ferments
1. ferment [v] - See also: ferment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ferments
Literary usage of Ferments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of Immunology by Howard Thomas Karsner, Enrique Eduardo Ecker (1921)
"The relation of ferments to immunity and ana- phylaxis has long been the subject
of discussion. In the chapters on special immune bodies we have discussed ..."
2. Preventive medicine and hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau (1917)
"The ferments are believed to be important to the infant, and this importance has
... Some of the ferments in milk are normal constituents of that secretion, ..."
3. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1908)
"GASTRIC ferments. By DE. CF MENNINGER, Topeka. \ S FAR back as the beginning of
the sixteenth century the •" phenomena of digestion claimed much attention ..."
4. A Textbook of pharmacology and therapeutics, or, the Action of drugs in by Arthur Robertson Cushny (1918)
"On the other hand, the pancreatic ferments are certainly destroyed in passing
through the stomach. It has been suggested, however, that they may act in the ..."
5. Bacteria by Antoine Magnin, George Miller Sternberg (1883)
"The engraving represents the different diseased ferments ... 1 represents the
ferments of turned beer, as it is called. These are filaments, simple or ..."
6. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1912)
"The discovery of intestinal ferments, which were found to perform the chemical
alterations which precede absorption of food, and the finding of similar or ..."
7. The Popular Science Monthly (1884)
"He proved that sugar was acted upon by a variety of ferments, each giving its
own peculiar ... ferments are now generally divided into two classes : 1. ..."
8. Cod-liver Oil and Chemistry by Frantz Peckel Møller, Peter Møller Heyerdahl (1895)
"ferments Under the collective name of ferments are classed a large number of
bodies of which chemically we know nothing except that, without, themselves, ..."
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