zoonotic disease

Questions about zoonotic disease

What does zoonotic disease mean?

zoonotic disease means "an animal disease that can be transmitted to humans".

What is another word for zoonotic disease?

Close synonyms include zoonosis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is zoonotic disease a common word?

zoonotic disease is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.