myco-, myc-, myceto-, mycet-, -myces, -mycetous, -mycetic, -mycetous, -mycosis +
(Greek: fungus, fungi; mushroom)
Don't confuse this myco- meaning "fungus, fungi" with another myco- meaning "mucus".
It is also distinguished by deep, lumpy abscesses that extrude a yellow, granular pus through multiple sinuses.
This disease occurs worldwide, but is seen most frequently in those who live in rural areas.
Mushrooms, puffballs, rusts, bracket fungi, and smuts are basidiomycotes.
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.
2. A long-term fungal infection of the skin and subcutaneous tissue.
2. A fungal infection of the skin; especially, of moist parts of the body that are covered by clothing.
2. A fungal disease of the intestine.
A cross reference of a word group that is related, directly or indirectly, to: "fungus, fungi": fungi-.