Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Occurring at the same time among an unusually large number of animals in a particular geographic area. Used of a disease.
- noun An epizootic disease.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In natural history, same as
epizoic , 1. - In geology, containing fossil remains: said of mountains, rocks, formations, and the like.
- Prevailing among the lower animals: applied to diseases, and corresponding to epidemic as applied to diseases prevalent among men.
- noun The temporary prevalence of a disease among brutes at a certain place: used in exactly the same way as epidemic in reference to human beings.
- noun A disease thus prevalent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A disease attacking many animals at the same time; an epizootic disease.
- noun A murrain; an epidemic influenza among horses.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to an epizoön.
- adjective (Geol.), obsolete Containing fossil remains; -- said of rocks, formations, mountains, and the like.
- adjective Of the nature of a disease which attacks many animals at the same time; -- corresponding to epidemic diseases among men.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun epidemiology An
occurrence of a disease ordisorder in apopulation of non-human animals at afrequency higher than that expected in a given time period. Compareepidemic . - noun A particular epizootic (epizootically-occurring) disease.
- noun dialectal, humorous, often plural A
disease orailment . - adjective epidemiology Like or having to do with an epizootic:
epidemic amonganimals . - adjective geology, rare
Containing fossils .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of animals) epidemic among animals of a single kind within a particular region
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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An "epizootic," by contrast, is an epidemic that affects a large number of animals, but in one population or region. pathogen
Influenza Glossary 2008
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Handel and Van Hemert are authors of two new papers describing what appears to be a building "epizootic," the wildlife equivalent of an epidemic, for which no cause has yet been identified.
NYT > Home Page By ANDREW C. REVKIN 2010
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Handel and Van Hemert are authors of two new papers describing what appears to be a building "epizootic," the wildlife equivalent of an epidemic, for which no cause has yet been identified.
NYT > Home Page By ANDREW C. REVKIN 2010
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I fear he has the epizootic, which is a very dreadful disease. "
Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble Howard Roger Garis 1917
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HD is caused by two closely related viruses, epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD) or bluetongue virus.
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HD is caused by two closely related viruses, epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD) or bluetongue virus.
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In 1872, despite a case of epizootic influenza that basically sidelined all the fire department's horses, the city didn't want to rent horses to pull fire engines, deciding that it was better to send an officer to see if it merited dragging a hose to the fire, leaving the engine in the house.
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Prior to European settlement (pre-1850), a wide variety of disturbances characterized the region, ranging from frequent small-scale and localized events such as treefall gaps to rare, large-scale events such as stand-replacing fires and epizootic outbreaks.
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john commented on the word epizootic
The Panic of 1873 was caused by the "Great Epizootic," a world-wide epidemic of equine influenza that crippled commerce when horses became unable to haul people or goods. The horses recovered within a year; the economy took a decade. More info here and here.
February 3, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word epizootic
"Shope had recently observed an extraordinarily violent influenza epizootic—an epidemic in animals—in swine. The overall mortality of the entire pig population had reached 4 percent; in some herds mortality had exceeded 10 percent. That very much sounded like the influenza pandemic in humans a decade earlier."
—John M. Barry, The Great Influenza (NY: Penguin Books, 2004), 442
February 18, 2009