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ZOONOSIS (zoonoses)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does zoonosis mean? 

ZOONOSIS (noun)
  The noun ZOONOSIS has 1 sense:

1. an animal disease that can be transmitted to humansplay

  Familiarity information: ZOONOSIS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ZOONOSIS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An animal disease that can be transmitted to humans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

zoonosis; zoonotic disease

Hypernyms ("zoonosis" is a kind of...):

animal disease (a disease that typically does not affect human beings)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "zoonosis"):

actinomycosis (disease of cattle that can be transmitted to humans; results from infection with actinomycetes; characterized by hard swellings that exude pus through long sinuses)

anthrax; splenic fever (a highly infectious animal disease (especially cattle and sheep); it can be transmitted to people)

Bang's disease; brucellosis; contagious abortion (an infectious disease of domestic animals often resulting in spontaneous abortion; transmittable to human beings)

glanders (a destructive and contagious bacterial disease of horses that can be transmitted to humans)

Lyme arthritis; Lyme disease (an acute inflammatory disease characterized by a rash with joint swelling and fever; caused by bacteria carried by the bite of a deer tick)

hydrophobia; lyssa; madness; rabies (an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain)

leptospirosis; swamp fever (an infectious disease cause by leptospira and transmitted to humans from domestic animals; characterized by jaundice and fever)

deer fly fever; rabbit fever; tularaemia; tularemia; yatobyo (a highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals)

Derivation:

zoonotic (of or relating to or constituting zoonosis)


 Context examples 


Animal diseases that people can catch are called zoonoses.

(Animal Diseases and Your Health, NIH)



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