| zoomelanin | <physiology> A pigment giving the black colour to the feathers of many birds. Origin: Zoo- + melanin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| zoomorphic | Of or pertaining to zoomorphism. Origin: Zoo- + Gr. Form. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| zoomorphism | 1. The transformation of men into beasts. 2. The quality of representing or using animal forms; as, zoomorphism in ornament. 3. The representation of God, or of gods, in the form, or with the attributes, of the lower animals. "To avoid the error of anthropomorphism, we fall into the vastly greater, and more absurd, error of zoomorphism." (Mivart) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| zoomylus | An obsolete term for dermoid cyst. Origin: zoo-+ G. Mylos, stone (05 Mar 2000) |
| zoon | Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Zoon = an animal. <zoology> An animal which is the sole product of a single egg; opposed to zooid. Any one of the perfectly developed individuals of a compound animal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Zoon's erythroplasia | Benign circumscribed balanitis characterised microscopically by subepithelial plasma cell infiltration and clinically by small erythematous papular lesions. Synonym: balanitis circumscripta plasmacellularis, balanitis of Zoon, Zoon's erythroplasia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Zoon, Johannes | <person> Dutch dermatologist, *1902. See: balanitis of Zoon, Zoon's erythroplasia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| zoonic | Of or pertaining to animals; obtained from animal substances. Origin: Gr. Zoon = an animal: cf. F. Zoonique. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| zoonite | <zoology> One of the segments of the body of an articulate animal. One of the theoretic transverse divisions of any segmented animal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| zoonomy | The laws of animal life, or the science which treats of the phenomena of animal life, their causes and relations. Origin: Zoo- + Gr. A law: cf. F. Zoonomie. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| zoonoses | Diseases of non-human animals that may be transmitted to man or may be transmitted from man to non-human animals. (12 Dec 1998) |
| zoonosis | <disease> The transmission of a disease from an animal or nonhuman species to humans. The natural reservoir is a nonhuman animal. Examples include: rabies, psittacosis (a viral disease of birds). (12 Nov 1997) |
| zoonotic | Relating to a zoonosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis | A form of cutaneous leishmaniasis characterised by rural distribution of human cases near infected rodents, particularly communal ground squirrels; characterised by acute rapidly developing dermal lesions that become severely inflamed, with moist necrotizing sores or ulcers that heal in two to eight months after a two to four month incubation period; among nonimmune immigrants, multiple lesions may develop, which heal more slowly and leave disabling or disfiguring scars. A strong delayed hypersensitivity and involvement of immune complexes play a role in necrosis, which is part of the healing process and of the strong specific immunity that follows. Synonym: acute cutaneous leishmaniasis, rural cutaneous leishmaniasis, wet cutaneous leishmaniasis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| zoonotic infection | An infection shared in nature by man with other species of vertebrate animals. (05 Mar 2000) |
| zoophilia |
One of the paraphilias, characterized by marked distress over, or acting on, urges to indulge in sexual activity that involves animals.
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| zone |
Zone of spinal cord gray matter that lies between the anterior and posterior horns corresponding to lamina VII of Rexed. This zone includes the nucleus dorsalis (of Clarke), intermediomedial, intermediolateral, and sacral autonomic nuclei.
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| zoonosis |
An infection or infestation shared in nature by humans and other animals that are the normal or usual host; a disease of humans acquired from an animal source.
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| zoom lens |
A lens, which has a variable focal length -eg 70-200mm- allowing for a closer or farther view of a subject, without changing perspective, only magnification.
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| zoosmosis |
Process of passage of living protoplasm into the tissues from blood vessels.
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