zoonosis

American  

[zoh-on-uh-sis, zoh-uh-noh-sis] / zoʊˈɒn ə sɪs, ˌzoʊ əˈnoʊ sɪs /

noun

PLURAL

zoonoses

1. Pathology.  any disease of animals communicable to humans.

---

zoonosis British  

/ ˌzəʊəˈnəʊsɪs, zəʊˈɒnəsɪs /

noun

1. pathol any infection or disease that is transmitted to man from lower vertebrates

---

Other Word Forms

• zoonotic adjective

Etymology

Origin of zoonosis

1875–80; < New Latin, irregular < Greek zōio- zoo- + nósos sickness, with ending apparently conformed to -sis

Example Sentences

Newspapers and cable news shows have long treated the lab-leak and zoonosis theories as somehow equivalent, often by asserting that both suffer from lack of evidence.

From Los Angeles Times

“The prevalence of lab-leak conspiracy is harmful for us to get further funding to continue our research on zoonosis, which is the major threat to the public health in the future.”

From Science Magazine

This insight is especially relevant to scientists studying “the spreading of zoonoses—diseases—which can be very dangerous to humans,” Fuglei says.

From Scientific American

This provides circumstantial evidence in support of the virus spreading to humans from animals—a type of infection known as zoonosis—at the market.

From Scientific American

And everything that we’ve done since, from the geographical analyses to the genomic analyses to, now, the forensic genetic analysis—it all points to natural zoonosis at the market.

From Scientific American