English > zoonosis: 1 sense > noun 1, state| Meaning | An animal disease that can be transmitted to humans. |
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| Synonym | zoonotic disease |
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| Narrower | Lyme disease, Lyme arthritis | An acute inflammatory disease characterized by a rash with joint swelling and fever |
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| actinomycosis | disease of cattle that can be transmitted to humans |
| anthrax, splenic fever | A highly infectious animal disease (especially cattle and sheep) |
| brucellosis, contagious abortion, Bang's disease | An infectious disease of domestic animals often resulting in spontaneous abortion |
| glanders | A destructive and contagious bacterial disease of horses that can be transmitted to humans |
| rabies, hydrophobia, lyssa, madness | An acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal) |
| swamp fever, leptospirosis | An infectious disease cause by leptospira and transmitted to humans from domestic animals |
| tularemia, tularaemia, rabbit fever, deer fly fever, 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 |
| Broader | animal disease | A disease that typically does not affect human beings |
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| Catalan | zoonosi |
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| Adjectives | zoonotic | of or relating to or constituting / constituting zoonosis |
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