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cryptococcus +‎ -al

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cryptococcal (not comparable)

  1. (pathology) Of or pertaining to cryptococcus fungi or cryptococcosis.
    • 2009 September 27, Donald G. Mcneil Jr., “If AIDS Went the Way of Smallpox”, in New York Times[1]:
      People with AIDS tend to die after years of suffering, often screaming from the agony of cryptococcal meningitis or choking on thrush fungus.

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