'Pasteurism' definitions:
Definition of 'Pasteurism'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Pasteurization. [1913 Webster]