mucormycosis

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /mju.kəɹ.maɪˈkoʊ.səs/

Noun

mucormycosis (countable and uncountable, plural mucormycoses)

1. (pathology, mycology) Any fungal infection caused by fungi in the order Mucorales.
   • 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^[1], →DOI:

     Herein, we characterized the infecting microbe, host, micro- and mycobiomes leading up to infection onset in a leukemia patient that developed invasive mucormycosis.

Synonyms

• (colloquial) black fungus

Hypernyms

• infection
• mycosis
• zygomycosis

 

Translations

fungal infection

• Finnish: mukormykoosi
• French: mucormycose (fr) f
• Hindi: कृष्णकवक m (kŕṣṇakvak)
• Polish: mukormikoza f, mukormykoza (pl) f
• Sanskrit: कृष्णकवक n (kṛṣṇakavaka)
• Spanish: mucormicosis f