zoonosis

See also: zoönosis

English

Alternative forms

• zoönosis

Etymology

From zoo- +‎ -nosis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /zəʊˈɒn.ə.sɪs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /zoʊˈɒn.ə.sɪs/, /zoʊˈə.noʊ.sɪs/

Noun

zoonosis (plural zoonoses)

1. 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.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• anthropozoonosis
• protozoonosis
• reverse zoonosis

• xenozoonosis
• zoonotic

Related terms

• anthroponosis

Translations

An animal disease that can be transmitted to humans

• Esperanto: zoonozo
• Finnish: zoonoosi (fi)
• French: zoonose (fr) f
• Galician: zoonose (gl) f

• German: Zoonose (de) f
• Malay: zoonosis
• Portuguese: zoonose f
• Spanish: zoonosis (es) f

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Spanish

Noun

zoonosis f (plural zoonosis)

1. zoonosis