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ZOONOSIS
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Irregular inflected form: zoonoses
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An animal disease that can be transmitted to humans
Synonyms:
zoonosis; zoonotic disease
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("zoonosis" is a kind of...):
animal disease (a disease that typically does not affect human beings)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "zoonosis"):
actinomycosis (disease of cattle that can be transmitted to humans; results from infection with actinomycetes; characterized by hard swellings that exude pus through long sinuses)
anthrax; splenic fever (a highly infectious animal disease (especially cattle and sheep); it can be transmitted to people)
Bang's disease; brucellosis; contagious abortion (an infectious disease of domestic animals often resulting in spontaneous abortion; transmittable to human beings)
glanders (a destructive and contagious bacterial disease of horses that can be transmitted to humans)
Lyme arthritis; Lyme disease (an acute inflammatory disease characterized by a rash with joint swelling and fever; caused by bacteria carried by the bite of a deer tick)
hydrophobia; lyssa; madness; rabies (an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain)
leptospirosis; swamp fever (an infectious disease cause by leptospira and transmitted to humans from domestic animals; characterized by jaundice and fever)
deer fly fever; rabbit fever; tularaemia; tularemia; yatobyo (a highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals)
Derivation:
zoonotic (of or relating to or constituting zoonosis)
