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/ɛpɪ.zəˈwɒtɪk/ · noun
(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.
[…]but it can be asserted with confidence that Natal will for some years yet be free from the possibility of an invasion of the disease to the same degree as the epizootic of 1896 and 1897.
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.
Never do I have colds — but I got the epizootics(?) and sneezed my head off — twenty three times yesterday.
"My Laws, Minnie! She's got spots! I guess you've got the epizootics."
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.
Use epizootic when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Epizootic means (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..
Common synonyms include epidemic.
Possible antonyms include enzootic.
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.
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