单词 | mucormycosis |
释义 | mucormycosisn. Medicine. Infection of a human, other mammal, or bird with a zygomycete fungus, esp. one of the family Mucoraceae; an instance of this. Cf. phycomycosis n.In humans mucormycosis is an opportunistic infection, esp. of the paranasal sinuses, brain, respiratory tract, and skin, and is most frequently caused by fungi of the genera Rhizopus and Absidia. The name mucormycosis has occasionally been used for infection with fungi of the order Entomophthorales. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > parasitic disorders > [noun] > mycosis > other fungoid disorders Madura foot1855 mycetoma1863 otomycosis1877 Sclerotium1885 blastomycosis1900 oidiomycosis1901 sporotrichosis1908 rhinosporidiosis1910 cryptococcosis1916 maduromycosis1916 mucormycosis1918 moniliasis1920 coccidioidomycosis1937 Candida1939 candidiasis1954 phycomycosis1959 thrush1967 1918 T. L. Stedman Pract. Med. Dict. (U.S. ed. 5) 621/2 Mucormycosis, a mycosis caused by a fungus or mould of the family Mucoraceæ, one of the slime fungi. 1943 Bull. Johns Hopkins Hosp. 73 405 These mucormycoses of animals..may be transferred to humans. 1957 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 9 Mar. 806/2 Rhizopus, rather than Mucor, appears to be the usual cause of human mucormycosis. 1965 J. W. Wilson & O. A. Plunkett Fungous Dis. Man xv. 190 Although the term ‘mucormycosis’ has long been used synonymously with the newer name ‘phycomycosis’, species of the genus Mucor are not often involved. 1974 R. Passmore & J. S. Robson Compan. Med. Stud. III. i. xii. 94/1 Cerebral mucormycosis presents with drowsiness or stupor. 1987 E. W. Burr Compan. Bird Med. xvi. 105/1 Mucormycosis..is rare among birds but may occur secondarily to malnutrition and other debilitating diseases. 1998 Amer. Jrnl. Rhinol. 12 289 This is the second report of rhinocerebral mucormycosis caused by Apophysomyces elegans, a newly recognized genus and species classified in the family Mucoraceae. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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