to quarantine an animal

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• quarantine — quar‧an‧tine [ˈkwɒrəntiːn ǁ ˈkwɔː ] noun [uncountable] when an animal or food product is kept apart from others in case it is carrying a disease, especially when it has just entered a country: • The exotic species will be kept in quarantine until …   Financial and business terms

• animal disease — ▪ non human Introduction       an impairment of the normal state of an animal that interrupts or modifies its vital functions.       Concern with diseases that afflict animals dates from the earliest human contacts with animals and is reflected… …   Universalium

• Quarantine — The period of isolation decreed to control the spread of infectious disease. Before the era of antibiotics, quarantine as one of the few available means for halting the spread of infectious diseases. It is still employed as needed, for example,… …   Medical dictionary

• Quarantine — For other uses see Quarantine (disambiguation) Quarantine is voluntary or compulsory isolation, typically to contain the spread of something considered dangerous, often but not always disease. The word comes from the Italian (seventeenth century… …   Wikipedia

• quarantine — I UK [ˈkwɒrəntiːn] / US [ˈkwɔrənˌtɪn] noun Word forms quarantine : singular quarantine plural quarantines a) [uncountable] a situation in which a person or animal that might have a disease is kept separate from other people or animals so that… …   English dictionary

• Quarantine (2008 film) — Infobox Film name = Quarantine caption = Theatrical release poster director =John Erick Dowdle producer = Roy Lee Doug Davison Sergio Aguero Drew Dowdl Carlos Fernández [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1082868/synopsis Quarantine (2008) – Synopsis ]… …   Wikipedia

• quarantine — quar|an|tine1 [ kwɔrən,tin ] noun uncount a situation in which a person or animal that might have a disease is kept separate from other people or animals so that they do not catch the disease: in quarantine: Animals can be kept in quarantine for… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• quarantine — quar|an|tine1 [ˈkwɔrənti:n US ˈkwo: ] n [U] [Date: 1600 1700; : Italian; Origin: quarantina period of forty days , from Old French, from quarante forty , from Latin quadraginta] a period of time when a person or animal is kept apart from others… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• quarantine — 1 noun (U) a period of time when a person or animal is kept apart from others in case they are carrying a disease: in quarantine (=being kept somewhere in a period of quarantine) 2 verb quarantined, quarantining (transitive often passive) to put… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• quarantine — [[t]kwɒ̱rəntiːn, AM kwɔ͟ːr [/t]] quarantines, quarantining, quarantined 1) N UNCOUNT: oft in/into n If a person or animal is in quarantine, they are being kept separate from other people or animals for a set period of time, usually because they… …   English dictionary

• quarantine — n. the period for which a person (or animal) is kept in isolation in order to prevent the spread of a contagious disease. The original quarantine was a period of 40 days, but different diseases now have different quarantine periods …   The new mediacal dictionary