mucormycosis
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From mucor (“mouldy”) + mycosis (“fungal infection”). From translingual Mucorales, from Latin mucor (“mustiness”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /mju.kəɹ.maɪˈkoʊ.səs/
Noun
[edit]mucormycosis (countable and uncountable, plural mucormycoses)
- (pathology, mycology) Any fungal infection caused by fungi in the order Mucorales.
- 2015 November 11, “Implementation of a Pan-Genomic Approach to Investigate Holobiont-Infecting Microbe Interaction: A Case Report of a Leukemic Patient with Invasive Mucormycosis”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- Herein, we characterized the infecting microbe, host, micro- and mycobiomes leading up to infection onset in a leukemia patient that developed invasive mucormycosis.
Synonyms
[edit]- (colloquial) black fungus
Hypernyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]fungal infection
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