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BLASTOMYCOSIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several infections of the skin or mucous membrane caused by Blastomyces
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("blastomycosis" is a kind of...):
fungal infection; mycosis (an inflammatory condition caused by a fungus)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blastomycosis"):
chromoblastomycosis (a fungal infection characterized by itchy warty nodules on the skin)
Derivation:
blastomycotic (of or relating to or characteristic of blastomycosis)