epizoötic

See also: epizootic

English

Etymology

From epi- +‎ zoötic.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛpɪ.zəˈwɒtɪk/, /ɛpɪ.zoʊˈɒtɪk/

Noun

epizoötic (plural epizoötics)

  1. Dated spelling of epizootic.
    • 1983, Robert S. Gottfried, The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe, paperback edition, Free Press, published 1985, →ISBN, page 7, →ISBN:
      Y. pestis is able to live in the dark, moist environment of rodent burrows even after the rodents have been killed by an epizoötic, or epidemic.

Adjective

epizoötic (not comparable)

  1. Dated spelling of epizootic.
    • 1983, Robert S. Gottfried, The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe, paperback edition, Free Press, published 1985, →ISBN, page 3, →ISBN:
      A fourth group, however, was very common — diseases transferred to humans from animal hosts, with animals acting either as intermediaries, as with malaria or typhus, or as primary or secondary epizoötic victims, as with bubonic plague.
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