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zoonosis (s) (noun), zoonoses (pl)
A disease of lower animals that may be transmitted to mankind: Types of zoonoses can be rabies, brucellosis, bird flu, or parrot fever (psittacosis).

Zoonosis is an infection communicated from one kind of animal to another, or to a human being, but usually restricted to diseases transmitted naturally to man from animals. It is also termed "anthropozoonosis".

A dog's saliva may contain viral zoonoses that include rabies and other infections.

One of the main functions of the veterinarian is to prevent and control zoonosis.

Pointing to a page about animal diseases or zoonoses. Human diseases caused by animals: Zoonoses, Part 1.

Pointing to a page about animal diseases or zoonoses. Human diseases caused by animals: Zoonoses, Part 2.

Diseases caused by animals. Dracunculiasis or the Guinea worm infestation.


This entry is located in the following units: noso-, nos-, nosero-, noser-, -nosia, -nosis, -noses, -nosus, nosema- + (page 5) zoo-, zoa-, zo-, -zoic, -zoid, -zoite, -zoal, -zonal, -zooid, -zoon, -zoa, -zoan (page 17)