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单词 nidality
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nidalityn.

Brit. /nʌɪˈdalᵻti/, U.S. /ˌnaɪˈdælədi/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: nidus n., -ality suffix.
Etymology: < nidus n. + -ality suffix. Compare Russian očagovost′ (1939, introduced by the Russian epidemiologist Evgenij Nikanorovič Pavlovskij (1884–1965): see quot. 1964) < očag, lit. ‘hearth’, also used in transferred senses ‘centre, seat, focus of infection, nidus’ + -ovost′, abstract noun suffix.
Medicine and Veterinary Medicine.
The occurrence of an infectious or parasitic disease as an enzootic in wild animals in particular areas or foci (usually determined by ecological constraints upon the host and any vector species).
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1956 Rev. Appl. Entomol. B. 44 145 The author [sc. E. N. Pavlovskiĭ] outlines his theory of the natural nidality of transmissible diseases of man... Natural nidality means that such a disease occurs and is maintained among wild animals in particular nidi or foci, often in the absence of man.
1964 Science 27 Mar. 1464/2 In 1939 E. N. Pavlovsky brought out his ‘doctrine’ of natural focality or natural nidality of disease... Prior to this time it was believed in Russia that most human diseases occurred only in man and were transmitted from man to man either directly or by vectors. Pavlovsky developed his theory that they were transmitted from wildlife to man by way of arthropod vectors when men invaded their territory.
1971 P. C. C. Garnham Progress in Parasitol. ii. 9 The doctrine of the nidality of disease should be based on biogeography in order to produce full results.
1981 N.Z. Vet. Jrnl. 29 111/1 A 3 year study of the nidality of leptospirosis..revealed that..there was virtually no evidence of interspecies transmission.
2002 Infection, Genetics & Evolution 1 191 A clearer understanding of the systematics of the host species explains the apparent natural nidality of BHF [= Bolivian hemorrhagic fever].
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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