mucormycosis

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mucormycosis

/mju.kəɹ.maɪˈkoʊ.səs/ US

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

noun mucormycoses

countable, uncountable 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.
Similar: black fungus

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noun fungal infection

Español	mucormicosis
हिन्दी	कृष्णकवक kŕṣṇakvak
Français	mucormycose

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@misc{mucormycosis_2026,
  title = {mucormycosis},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mucormycosis},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}