- anthropozoophilic
- an·thro·po·zoo·phil·ic (an″thrə-po-zo″o-filґik) [anthropo- + zoophilic] attracted to both human beings and animals, such as certain mosquitoes and fungi. Cf. anthropophilic and zoophilic.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
anthropozoophilic
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