zoonosis

• zoönosis

From zoo- +‎ (itself from Ancient Greek ζῷον (zōîon, “animal”)) + Ancient Greek νόσος (nósos, “disease”) (compare also nosology); the surface analysis is almost, although not quite, zoo- +‎ -osis; compare also anthroponosis.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /zəʊˈɒn.ə.sɪs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /zoʊˈɒn.ə.sɪs/, /ˌzoʊ.əˈnoʊ.sɪs/^[1]

• Audio (US):

  (file)

zoonosis (plural zoonoses)

1. (biology, microbiology) An animal disease, such as rabies or anthrax, that can be transmitted to humans.
   • 1982 February 11, A.L. Ritterson, “Valentine's day: is love really a zoonosis?”, in New England Journal of Medicine‎^[1], volume 306, archived from the original on 4 October 2023, pages 372-373:
   • 2013 January, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, in American Scientist‎^[2], volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 9 February 2017, page 64:

     In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.

• amphixenosis
• amphizoonosis

• anthroponosis

From zoo- +‎ Ancient Greek νόσος (nósos, “disease”) +‎ -sis.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /θooˈnosis/ [θo.oˈno.sis] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /sooˈnosis/ [so.oˈno.sis] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -osis
• Syllabification: zo‧o‧no‧sis

zoonosis f (plural zoonosis)

1. (medicine) zoonosis

• “zoonosis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024