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An animal disease that can be transmitted to humans
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zoonosis
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Wikipedia
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Zoonoses (, plural -, also spelled zoönoses ; singular zoonosis (or zoönosis ); from Greek : ζῷον zoon "animal" and νόσος nosos "sickness") are infectious diseases of animals (usually vertebrates ) that can naturally be transmitted to humans. Major modern ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An animal disease, such as rabies or anthrax, that can be transmit to humans.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"disease communicated to humans by animals," plural zoonoses , 1876, from zoo- "animal" + nosos "disease" (see noso- ).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an animal disease that can be transmitted to humans [syn: zoonotic disease ] [also: zoonoses (pl)]
Usage examples of zoonosis.
African monkey and is therefore a zoonosis, or a disease of vertebrate animals that occasionally gets transmitted to man.
The following year a lab was added for zoonoses, diseases that are animal ailments but that can be transmitted to man, like plague, rabies and anthrax.