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mucormycosis en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /mju.kəɹ.maɪˈkoʊ.səs/ (General-American)

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Any fungal infection caused by fungi in the order Mucorales.
   • Herein, we characterized the infecting microbe, host, micro- and mycobiomes leading up to infection onset in a leukemia patient that developed invasive mucormycosis. 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, →DOI:

Forms

Hypernyms

mycosis · infection · zygomycosis

Synonyms

black fungus

Translations (7)

hi कृष्णकवक (fungal infection) · es mucormicosis (fungal infection) · sa कृष्णकवक (fungal infection) · pl mukormykoza (fungal infection) · pl mukormikoza (fungal infection) · fi mukormykoosi (fungal infection) · fr mucormycose (fungal infection)