cryptococcosis

English

Cryptococcus, the fungus that causes cryptococcosis

Etymology

cryptococcus +‎ -osis

Noun

cryptococcosis (countable and uncountable, plural cryptococcoses)

(medicine) A serious and potentially fatal fungal disease caused by members of the Cryptococcus neoformans species complex, believed to be acquired by inhalation of the infectious propagule from the environment.

Translations

a serious disease caused the Cryptococcus neoformans fungus

Portuguese: criptococose f

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