BLASTOMYCOSIS

blastomycosis

(noun) any of several infections of the skin or mucous membrane caused by Blastomyces

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

blastomycosis (countable and uncountable, plural blastomycoses)

(pathology) A fungal infection caused by the organism Blastomyces dermatitidis, endemic to parts of North America, whose clinical symptoms resemble those of histoplasmosis

Source: Wiktionary



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28 November 2024

SYNCRETISM

(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)


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