nidality
/nʌɪˈdalɪti/Medicine and Veterinary Med.
noun
The occurrence of an infectious or parasitic disease as an enzootic in wild animals in particular areas or foci (usually determined by ecological constraints upon the host and any vector species).
Origin
1950s. From nidus + -ality. Compare Russian očagovost′ from očag, lit. ‘hearth’, also used in transferred senses ‘centre, seat, focus of infection, nidus’ + -ovost′, abstract noun suffix.
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