epizootic

a. 动物流行病的 n. 家畜流行病

发音

/ɛpɪ.zəˈwɒtɪk/
/ɛpɪ.zoʊˈɒtɪk/
其它 /ɛpɪˈzuːdɪk/

词形变化

epizootics 复数 epizootics more epizootic 比较级 most epizootic 最高级

别名

epizoötic epizoodic epizudic epizoonotic

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An occurrence of a disease or disorder in a population of non-human animals at a frequency higher than that expected in a given time period.

    医学

    At the same time as an epidemic of the flu broke out among the people, an epizootic of the swine flu broke out among their pigs.

  2. 2.

    A particular epizootic disease.

    A surgeon in the town has also informed me, that a person requested him to prescribe for some lambs affected with the epizootic, and he gave them Epsom salts and opium, with, as he said, very good effect.

  3. 3.

    A disease or ailment (of humans).

    方言 幽默

    Johnny's not doing so well today, I think he caught the epizootic.

    Last fall, when Dad had the Epizootic; no, I don't mean that, tho I did think he had em, but when the Chicargar hosses got the Epizootic, Dad got all fired mad caus that xpressman didn't cum round to move the rest of our traps.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Like or having to do with an epizootic: a widespread outbreak of disease among nonhuman animals.

    医学

    Epizootic plague occurred in the mice following introduction of rats from Europe.

    1919 March 19, author not named, The Mud Larks, in Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, 2004 Gutenberg edition, I handed it back to him, explaining that he had come to the wrong shop--unless he were a horse, of course. If he were and could provide his own nosebag, head-stall and Army Form 1640, testifying that he was guiltless of mange, ophthalmia or epizootic lymphangitis, I would do what I could for him.

  2. 2.

    Containing fossils.

    罕用 地质
  3. 3.

    Relating to epizoa; epizoic.

词汇关系

形容词

近义相关 1

epidemic

相关短语

epizootic hemorrhagic disease epizootic ulcerative syndrome

词源

From French épizootique, animal equivalent of epidemic, from épizootie, irregularly formed from Ancient Greek ἐπί (epí) + ζῷον (zōîon, “animal”). By surface analysis, epi- + zo- + -otic. Use of the word in the second sense, "an ailment", was likely originally a reference to a particular epizootic ailment. Both senses are attested since at least the 1800s, and the pronunciation with five syllables is explicitly attested since then as well. Dialectal pronunciation of the second sense with four syllables is attested since at least the 1910s in spellings like "epizudic" and is suggested by 1870s references to a shortened form of the word, "zooty".

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