zoonosis

See also: zoönosis

English

Alternative forms

• zoönosis

Etymology

From zoo- + Ancient Greek νόσος (nósos, “disease”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /zəʊˈɒn.ə.sɪs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /zoʊˈɒn.ə.sɪs/, /ˌzoʊ.əˈnoʊ.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
• epizoonosis
• protozoonosis

• reverse zoonosis
• xenozoonosis
• zoonotic

Related terms

• anthroponosis

Translations

An animal disease that can be transmitted to humans

• Azerbaijani: zoonoz
• Basque: zoonosi
• Bulgarian: зооноза f (zoonoza)
• Catalan: zoonosi f
• Czech: zoonóza f
• Danish: zoonose c
• Dutch: zoönose (nl) f
• Esperanto: zoonozo
• Finnish: zoonoosi (fi)
• French: zoonose (fr) f
• Galician: zoonose (gl) f
• Georgian: ზოონოზი (zoonozi)
• German: Zoonose (de) f
• Hindi: ज़ूनोसिस (zūnosis)
• Hungarian: zoonózis (hu)
• Icelandic: súna f
• Interlingua: zoonose

• Irish: zónóis f
• Italian: zoonosi (it) f
• Japanese: ズーノーシス (zūnōshisu)
• Malay: zoonosis
• Norwegian: zoonose f

  Bokmål: zoonose f

  Nynorsk: zoonose f

• Polish: zoonoza (pl) f
• Portuguese: zoonose f
• Romanian: zoonoză (ro) f
• Russian: зооно́з (ru) m (zoonóz)
• Spanish: zoonosis (es) f
• Swedish: zoonos (sv) c
• Turkish: zoonoz
• Ukrainian: зооно́з m (zoonóz)
• Walloon: zonôze (wa) f

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Spanish

Noun

zoonosis f (plural zoonosis)

1. zoonosis