zoonosis
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See also: zoönosis
English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From zoo- + (itself from Ancient Greek ζῷον (zôion, “animal”)) + Ancient Greek νόσος (nósos, “disease”)
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zoonosis (plural zoonoses)
- An animal disease, such as rabies or anthrax, that can be transmitted to humans.
- 2013 January 1, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, in American Scientist[1], volume 101, number 1, page 64:
- In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.
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animal disease that can be transmitted to humans
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References[edit]
- ^ “zoonosis” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
zoo- + Ancient Greek νόσος (nósos, “disease”) + -sis.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): (Spain) /θooˈnosis/, [θo.oˈno.sis]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /sooˈnosis/, [so.oˈno.sis]
- Rhymes: -osis
Noun[edit]
zoonosis f (plural zoonosis)
References[edit]
- ^ “zoonosis” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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