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    ZOONOSIS

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    Irregular inflected form: zoonoses  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    An animal disease that can be transmitted to humansplay

    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)

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