Definition of "epizootic" in İngilizce

noun

1. (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.

   • 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. 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. (dialectal, humorous, often in the plural) A disease or ailment (of humans).

   • 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.

adjective

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

   • 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. (geology, rare) Containing fossils.

3. Relating to epizoa; epizoic.