"Animal health" . From "zoo-", animal and "sanitary", pertaining to or relating to health. 1 . Pertaining to or relating to animal health. 2 . Pertaining to or relating to the prevention, treatment, alleviation, or cure of animal diseases. 3 . According to FundéuRAE, it is written without space or hyphen, so variants such as zoo-sanitary, hyphenated, or zoosanitary, with space, are inadequate.