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Definition: Blastomycosis |
BlastomycosisNoun1. Any of several infections of the skin or mucous membrane caused by Blastomyces. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | A fungal infection that may appear in two forms: 1) a primary lesion characterized by the formation of a small cutaneous nodule and small nodules along the lymphatics that may heal within several months; and 2) chronic granulomatous lesions characterized by thick crusts, warty growths, and unusual vascularity and infection in the middle or upper lobes of the lung. (references) |
Medicine | A fungus disease caused by yeastlike organisms that attack skin, eyelids or lungs. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Crosswords: Blastomycosis |
| English words defined with "blastomycosis": blastomycotic. (references) |
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 | Smear from foot lesion of blastomycosis showing Blastomyces dermatitidis yeast cell undergoing broad-base budding.Credit: CDC. |  | Map of eastern United States and Canada showing distribution of reported cases of blastomycosis.Credit: CDC. |
 | Nodular skin lesions of blastomycosis, one of which is a bullous lesion on top of a nodule. Aspiration of the bulla revealed yeast forms of Blastomyces dermatitidis.Credit: CDC. |  | Histopathology of blastomycosis of skin. Budding cell of Blastomyces dermatitidis surrounded by neutrophils. Multiple nuclei are visible.Credit: CDC. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Bradsher RW. Histoplasmosis and blastomycosis. (references) | |
Chapman SW, Bradsher RW, Campbell GD, et al. Practice guidelines for the management of patients with blastomycosis. (references) | ||
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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blastomycosis | 96 |
blastomycosis canine | 7 |
blastomycosis skin | 3 |
blastomycosis dog | 2 |
blastomycosis dog in | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "blastomycosis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | blastomykose. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | blastomycosis (fistulous gluteal blastomycosis), blastomycose (fistulous gluteal blastomycosis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | blastomycose, exascose. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Blastomykose, Blastomycosis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | βλαστομυκητίαση. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | astomycosisblay blastomicose. (various references) blastomicosis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-i-l-m-o-o-s-s-s-t-y" | |
-3 letters: cymbalists, symbolists. | |
-4 letters: cymbalist, massicots, myoblasts, scoliomas, symbolist. | |
-5 letters: blossoms, blossomy, cambists, classism, classist, coassist, cosmists, cytosols, isostasy, locoisms, massicot, miscasts, misclass, myoblast, myosotis, mystical, scolioma, scotomas, slyboots, sociably, soloists, symbiots, symbolic, systolic, tombolas. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 6C 61 73 74 6F 6D 79 63 6F 73 69 73 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101100 01100001 01110011 01110100 01101111 01101101 01111001 01100011 01101111 01110011 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B l a s t o m y c o s i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 006C 0061 0073 0074 006F 006D 0079 0063 006F 0073 0069 0073 |
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