Mucormycosis

//mju.kəɹ.maɪˈkoʊ.səs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any fungal infection caused by fungi in the order Mucorales. countable, uncountable

    "Herein, we characterized the infecting microbe, host, micro- and mycobiomes leading up to infection onset in a leukemia patient that developed invasive mucormycosis."

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black fungus

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"Herein, we characterized the infecting microbe, host, micro- and mycobiomes leading up to infection onset in a leukemia patient that developed invasive mucormycosis."

Etymology

From mucor (“mouldy”) + mycosis (“fungal infection”). From translingual Mucorales, from Latin mucor (“mustiness”).

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