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語源

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

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /zəʊ.ˈɒn.ə.sɪs/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /zoʊ.ˈɒn.ə.sɪs/, /ˌzoʊ.əˈnoʊ.sɪs/^[1]

名詞

zoonosis (複数形 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.

下位語

• amphixenosis
• amphizoonosis

派生語

関連する語

• anthroponosis

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