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1. An inflammatory bacterial disease of cattle and other animals, sometimes caught by humans, that resembles a fungus and causes swelling of the abdomen, chest, and especially the jaw.
2. A chronic disease of cattle, swine, and humans characterized by hard granulomatous masses usually in the mouth and jaw.

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, fungi of the class Basidiomycetes; a fungus that produces its spores in a characteristic club-shaped cell basidium.

Mushrooms, puffballs, rusts, bracket fungi, and smuts are basidiomycotes.

1. A fungal infection causing lesions on the lungs, skin, or mucous membranes.
2. Infection with a fungus called Blastomyces dermatitidis.

It usually presents a flu-like illness with fever, chills, productive cough, myalgia, arthralgia, and pleuritic chest pain.

Some patients fail to recover and develop chronic pulmonary infection or widespread disseminated infection; affecting the skin, bones, and genitourinary tract. It occasionally affects the meninges which cover the brain and spinal cord.

People who are at an elevated risk for the disease are those in areas with endemic disease with exposures to wooded sites; such as, farmers, forestry workers, hunters, and campers. The disease can leave permanent lung damage.

1. A fungal infection characterized by itchy warty nodules (bumps) on the skin.
2. A long-term fungal infection of the skin and subcutaneous tissue.

Fungus dust.

1. A superficial infection of the skin or its appendages by fungi.
2. A fungal infection of the skin; especially, of moist parts of the body that are covered by clothing.