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Pasteurism

Pas*teur"ism\, n. [Fr. Pasteur, a French scientist.]

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. Pasteurization.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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