Panademic vs Epizootic - What's the difference?
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(epidemiology) 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. Compare epidemic .
A particular epizootic (epizootically-occurring) disease.
* 1856 , On the epizootic lately affecting lambs'', in ''The Veterinarian; or Monthly Journal of Veterinary Science for 1856 , volume XXIX-II, fourth series, edited by Morton and Simonds, page 450:
A disease or ailment.
* 1873 , Jeramiah Juniur Blows His Bugle'', in ''Gem of the West and Soliders' Friend , seventh year, January 1873, page 378:
* 1986 , Geneva Bair Wilson, As the Anvil Rings , page 78:
* 1977 , Dear Sammy: Letters from Getrude Stein and Alice Toklas , edited by Samuel M. Steward, page 237:
* 1998 , David Pietrusza, Judge and Jury, the life and times of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis , page 348:
(epidemiology) Like or having to do with an epizootic : epidemic among animals.
* 1913 , J. J. Desmond, An enzootic of contagious abortion in cattle'', in the ''American Journal of Veterinary Medicine , September 1913, volume VIII, number 9, page 470:
* 1914 , Thomas Shaw, Management and Feeding of Sheep , page 398,
* 1919 March 19, author not named, The Mud Larks'', in '' , Volume 156,
* 1933 , British Veterinary Journal , Volume 89, page 74,
(geology, rare) Containing fossils.
* 1799 , Richard Kirwan, Geological Essays , pages 160-161:
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(wikipedia epizootic)Alternative forms
* * (l) * (l)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- "My Laws, Minnie! She's got spots! I guess you've got the epizootics ."
- Never do I have colds — but I got the epizootics (?) and sneezed my head off — twenty three times yesterday.
- Then along comes somebody else who says you've got epizootic' and he can cure ' epizootic and he doesn't have to cut out the epi.
Usage notes
Used in the second sense to mean "an ailment", it is often preceded by the definite article ("the epizootic"), is often plural in form ("the epizootics"), and is sometimes written "(the) epizoodic".Adjective
(en adjective)- Epizootic plague occurred in the mice following introduction of rats from Europe.
- As much attention is being drawn to the subject of epizootic abortion in bovines, [...]
- These are known respectively as the hair lung worm and the thread lung worm. The former of these is probably the more widely diffused, but the latter is more epizootic in flocks than the former.
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- 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.
- The parasites important in Britain do, however, by themselves constitute a most serious source of loss to pig breeders — probably at least as serious as that caused by the various more spectacular but more epizootic bacterial diseases.
- Hence their primary division is into primeval'' and ''secondary'' or ''Epizootic''. And the epizootic mountains are still farther distinguishable into ''original'' and ''derivative .