Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Occurring at a steady or predictable rate in animals of a specific geographic area; endemic. Used of a disease.
- noun An enzootic disease.
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- noun In
epidemiology anoccurrence of a disease ordisorder in a population of non-humananimals at thefrequency expected in a given time period. - adjective Like or having to do with an enzootic
- adjective Of a disease, prevalent in a given population or area
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- adjective of a disease that is constantly present in an animal community but only occurs in a small number of cases
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The UK pig industry has a new antibiotic in its fight against major respiratory diseases such as enzootic pneumonia, ileitis and swine dysentery.
FWi - All News 2008
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Had the difficulty been enzootic, the Vom might have controlled it.
Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973
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Had the difficulty been enzootic, the Vom might have controlled it.
Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973
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Had the difficulty been enzootic, the Vom might have controlled it.
Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973
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Had the difficulty been enzootic, the Vom might have controlled it.
Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973
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An infectious type of coronary inflammation occurs in some localities during the winter months, wherein the condition is enzootic.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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It has been met with in enzootic form near smelting works, where, by the fumes arising from the works, lead in the form of oxid, carbonate, or sulphate was deposited on the grass and herbage which the horses ate.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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It may occur in sporadic form, but in certain regions, such as South Africa, Australia, Madagascar, India, Hawaii, and in this country it seems to be enzootic, several cases usually appearing in the same stable or on the same farm, and numerous animals being affected in the same district.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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It is now a permanent disease in our large cities, selecting for the continuance of its virulence young or especially susceptible horses which pass through the large and ill-ventilated and uncleaned stables of dealers, and assumes from time to time an enzootic form, when from some reason its virulence increases.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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Its appearance in America is by no means of recent occurrence, for the malady was reported by Large in 1847, by Michener in 1850, and by Liautard in 1869 as appearing in both sporadic and enzootic form in several of the Eastern States.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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Perspective
Zika Virus in the Americas — Yet Another Arbovirus Threat
Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., and David M. Morens, M.D.
January 13, 2016DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1600297
January 14, 2016