animal disease
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- noun
- /ˈænɪməl dɪˈziːz/
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enfermedad animal
- Symptoms are similar to those of hog cholera, another devastating animal disease that has fortunately been eradicated in the United States.
- foreign animal disease
Examples
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Veterinarians are trained to recognize and treat various animal diseases that affect livestock.
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In her work, Bolin had often discussed diagnostic work on animal diseases with other federal agencies, such as the CDC in Atlanta, Georgia.
Academic text (1996) -
There were virtually no animal diseases that could...
Fiction book (1994) -
Lack of health services means that both human and animal diseases go unregulated.
Academic text (2003) -
There is another range of animal diseases that the veterinary colleges might quite properly want to study.
Fiction book (1994) -
Even though FMD is a foreign animal disease, it's potentially the single greatest threat to livestock in American agriculture.
Academic text (1995) -
Acupuncture is known to have therapeutic effects in a wide variety of animal diseases.
Blog text (8) -
Accurate diagnosis of animal disease can be a pocketbook issue for producers.
Academic text (1994) -
The search intensifies for tests to identify elusive animal diseases.
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But even basic facts about some animal diseases, such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), are still unknown.
Academic text (1994)
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'animal' modifies 'disease' to indicate a disease affecting animals, so a learner who knows both words can derive the sense. This noun-noun modification pattern is cross-linguistically common, though the precise nuance 'typically not humans' may require context.
Etymology
Animal disease joins animal, meaning a non-human creature like a cow or dog, and disease, meaning an illness. So the phrase points to 'a sickness that affects animals, not people'.