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know-how (iou)



know-how noun. M19.
[from know how s.v. KNOW verb.]
Technical expertise; practical ability or invention.
B. Bainbridge They have manpower, resources, know-how. A. Guinness My own lack of know-how and swift rash judgements hampered the allied cause.

Zymotic disease (medicine)


Zymotic disease
<microbiology> Any epidemic, endemic, contagious, or sporadic affection which is produced by some morbific principle or organism acting on the system like a ferment.

Origin: Gr. Causing to ferment, fr. To ferment, ferment, leaven.

Source: Websters Dictionary