单词 | panzootic |
释义 | panzooticn.adj. Veterinary Medicine. A. n. A widespread outbreak of a disease affecting several kinds of animal. Cf. epizootic n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > [noun] > communicable or infectious pantozootia1848 panzooty1848 zoonosis1873 panzootic1890 1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II Panzoötic, an epizoötic affecting many different kinds of animals. 1966 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 56 362 Tens of millions of livestock and game were killed in the great African rinderpest panzootic which swept through that continent in the latter 1800's. 1995 L. Garrett Coming Plague (new ed.) vi. 161 It appears that influenza viruses are constantly circulating among many avian species without causing panzootics (cross-species epidemics). B. adj. Of, relating to, or designating such a disease. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > [adjective] > infectious panzootic1893 1893 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Panzoötic, relating to Panzoötia. 1989 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Med. 82 519/2 Canine parvovirus (CPV) appeared abruptly in dogs in 1977 and within a few months had become panzootic on all continents causing an entirely new form of canine enteritis and myocarditis. 2001 Environmental Health Perspectives 109 a565/2 Panzootic outbreaks of disease were possible (however, there is no evidence of an episode that exerted lethality in all living forms..as occurred during the C-T and other mass extinction events). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1890 |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。