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mucormycoses

mucormycoses is the plural of mucormycosis.

Meaning of mucormycosis

Noun

mucormycosis (countable and uncountable, plural mucormycoses)

  1. Any fungal infection caused by fungi in the order Mucorales.
    • Herein, we characterized the infecting microbe, host, micro- and mycobiomes leading up to infection onset in a leukemia patient that developed invasive mucormycosis.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, →DOI
    Synonyms:
    black fungus

Questions about mucormycoses

What is mucormycoses the plural of?
Mucormycoses is the plural of mucormycosis.

Words near mucormycoses in the dictionary

  1. mucoralean
  2. mucoregulator
  3. mucoregulators
  4. mucoregulatory
  5. mucorin
  6. mucormycoses
  7. mucormycosis
  8. mucormycotic
  9. mucoromycete
  10. mucoromycetes
  11. mucosa

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