zoonosis

See also: zoönosis

English

Alternative forms

• zoönosis

Etymology

From zoo- (itself from Ancient Greek ζῷον (zôion, “animal”)) + Ancient Greek νόσος (nósos, “disease”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zəʊˈɒn.ə.sɪs/
• 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, 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
• endozoonosis
• 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
• Greek: ζωονόσος (el) f (zoonósos)
• Hindi: ज़ूनोसिस (zūnosis)
• Hungarian: zoonózis (hu)
• Icelandic: súna f
• Interlingua: zoonose
• Irish: zónóis f
• Italian: zoonosi (it) f
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• Japanese: ズーノーシス (zūnōshisu)
• Kazakh: зооноз (zoonoz)
• Kyrgyz: зооноз (zoonoz)
• Malay: zoonosis
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: zoonose m

  Nynorsk: zoonose m

• Polish: zoonoza (pl) f
• Portuguese: zoonose f
• Romanian: zoonoză (ro) f
• Russian: зооно́з (ru) m (zoonóz)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: зооно́за f

  Roman: zoonóza (sh) f

• Spanish: zoonosis (es) f
• Swedish: zoonos (sv) c
• Turkish: zoonoz
• Ukrainian: зооно́з m (zoonóz)
• Walloon: zonôze (wa) f

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Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θooˈnosis/ [θo.oˈno.sis]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /sooˈnosis/ [so.oˈno.sis]
• Rhymes: -osis

Noun

zoonosis f (plural zoonosis)

1. (medicine) zoonosis