单词 | mycetoma |
释义 | mycetoman. 1. Medicine. a. Chronic inflammation of the skin and subcutaneous tissue, and often bone, esp. of the foot or lower leg, caused by infection with any of various actinomycetes and fungi, occurring chiefly in the tropics; an instance or case of this. Also called maduromycosis. Cf. Madura foot n. at Madura n. 1. 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 1863 H. V. Carter in Brit. & Foreign Medico-chirurg. Rev. 32 198 ‘Mycetoma’ stands for a form of swelling which is caused by a fungus. 1871 J. Hogg in Monthly Microsc. Mag. 5 61 (title) Mycetoma: the Madura or fungus-foot of India. 1892 Lancet 16 July 170/1 The actinomycotic nature..of the black variety of mycetoma. 1937 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 6 406/2 Some of these fungous diseases with which the Negro farmer often becomes infected are: Sporotrichosis, mycetoma, and actinomycosis. 1961 R. D. Baker Essent. Pathol. ix. 213 Maduromycosis or mycetoma is an infection of an extremity, usually the lower, as the result of a puncture wound. 1989 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Med. 82 553/1 The genus Actinomycetes (spp madurae, pelletiere) is reportedly responsible for between 10 and 20% of all mycetomas, more than half of these being due to A. madurae. b. A mass of fungus in a cavity of the body or of an organ; esp. an aspergilloma. ΚΠ 1951 S. C. Shanks & P. Kerley Text-bk. X-Ray Diagnosis (ed. 2) II. 442 An aspergillosis mycetoma can occur in the lungs... The term mycetoma connotes a tumour-like swelling caused by a fungus. 1952 Thorax 7 324 It should be noted that in the mycetomata..the contents consist almost entirely of mycelium. 1964 Lancet 14 Mar. 588/1 The diagnosis of aspergilloma, or aspergillus mycetoma, of the lungs is made from the typical radiographic picture of a rounded mass with an air-containing halo. 1970 Radiology 95 285/1 In virtually all cases of mycetoma (fungus ball in a pre-existing cavity) reported, the responsible fungus was not in its pathogenic form. 2002 Australasian Radiol. 46 57 (title) Primary renal candidiasis: fungal mycetomas in the kidney. 2. Entomology. = mycetome n. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > specialized cell > cell containing micro-organisms or mycetocyte > mycetome pseudovitellus1858 mycetoma1923 mycetome1924 1923 Amer. Naturalist 57 465 The symbiont-containing cells (Mycetocytes) agglomerate to form true organs termed Mycetomas, organs that are surrounded by flattened epithelial cells. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1863 |
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