zoonosis

See also: zoönosis

English

Alternative forms

• zoönosis

Etymology

From zoo- +‎ -nosis

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zəʊˈɒnəsɪs/

Noun

Wikipedia

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
• Spanish: zoonosis (es) f