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HISTOPLASMA

Specialty Definition: HISTOPLASMA

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Health

A mitosporic Onygenales fungal species causing histoplasmosis in humans and animals. Histoplasma capsulatum and its teleomorph Ajellomyces capsulatus are the offending species. (references)

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Crosswords: HISTOPLASMA

Specialty definitions using "HISTOPLASMA": African glandersepizootic lymphangitisHistoplasma farciminosum infectionJapanese farcyLymphangitis epizooticaNeapolitan farcypseudofarcy, pseudoglanders. (references)

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Photo Album: HISTOPLASMA

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Sabouraud's dextrose agar plate culture of soil isolate of Histoplasma capsulatum showing typical fuzzy appearance of mold colony. Credit: CDC.

Asexual spores (conidia): tuberculate macroconidia of Histoplasma capsulatum. Microconidia are also present. Credit: CDC.

Histopathology of histoplasmosis in open lung biopsy. FA stain reveals numerous yeast cells of Histoplasma capsulatum. Credit: CDC.

Methenamine silver stain reveals Histoplasma capsulatum fungi. Credit: CDC.

Histiocyte containing numerous yeast cells of Histoplasma capsulatum. Tissue smear, Giemsa stain. Credit: CDC.

Gross pathology specimen of lung showing cut surface of fibrocaseous nodule due to Histoplasma capsulatum. Isolated coin lesion. Credit: CDC.

Steps of "exoantigen" technique, used for immunoidentification of systemic dimorphic fungal pathogens including Histoplasma. Chart. Credit: CDC.

Needle aspiration biopsy of lung showing yeasts of Histoplasma capsulatum. Methenamine silver stain. Credit: CDC.

Comparison of Histoplasma capsulatum, Sepedonium species, and Chrysosporum species macroconidia. Macroconidia are morphologically similar. Credit: CDC.

  

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Non-Fiction Usage: HISTOPLASMA

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Health

Histoplasma capsulatum var. capsulatum. (references)

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Expressions: HISTOPLASMA

Expressions using "HISTOPLASMA": Histoplasma capsulatum Histoplasma farciminosum infection. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: HISTOPLASMA

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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histoplasma capsulatum

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histoplasma

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capsulatum fungus histoplasma

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Modern Translation: HISTOPLASMA

Language Translations for "HISTOPLASMA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

epizootisk lymfangitis hos hest (African glanders, epizootic lymphangitis, Histoplasma farciminosum infection, Japanese farcy, Lymphangitis epizootica, Neapolitan farcy, pseudofarcy, pseudoglanders). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

epizoötische lymfangitis (African glanders, epizootic lymphangitis, Histoplasma farciminosum infection, Japanese farcy, Lymphangitis epizootica, Neapolitan farcy, pseudofarcy, pseudoglanders). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

epitsoottinen lymfangiitti (African glanders, epizootic lymphangitis, Histoplasma farciminosum infection, Japanese farcy, Lymphangitis epizootica, Neapolitan farcy, pseudofarcy, pseudoglanders). (various references)

   

French

  

histoplasmose Histoplasma capsulatum variété farciminosum (Histoplasma farciminosum infection), infection Histoplasma farciminosum (Histoplasma farciminosum infection). (various references)

   

German

  

seuchenhafte Lymphgefäßentzündung der Equiden (African glanders, epizootic lymphangitis, Histoplasma farciminosum infection, Japanese farcy, Lymphangitis epizootica, Neapolitan farcy, pseudofarcy, pseudoglanders), afrikanischer Rotz (African glanders, epizootic lymphangitis, Histoplasma farciminosum infection, Japanese farcy, Lymphangitis epizootica, Neapolitan farcy, pseudofarcy, pseudoglanders). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

επιζωστική λεμφαγγειίτις (African glanders, epizootic lymphangitis, Histoplasma farciminosum infection, Japanese farcy, Lymphangitis epizootica, Neapolitan farcy, pseudofarcy, pseudoglanders). (various references)

   

Italian

  

pseudo farcino (African glanders, epizootic lymphangitis, Histoplasma farciminosum infection, Japanese farcy, Lymphangitis epizootica, Neapolitan farcy, pseudofarcy, pseudoglanders), linfangite epizootica (African glanders, epizootic lymphangitis, Histoplasma farciminosum infection, Japanese farcy, Lymphangitis epizootica, Neapolitan farcy, pseudofarcy, pseudoglanders), farcino criptococcico (African glanders, epizootic lymphangitis, Histoplasma farciminosum infection, Japanese farcy, Lymphangitis epizootica, Neapolitan farcy, pseudofarcy, pseudoglanders). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

istoplasmahay

   

Portuguese

  

sacaromicose (African glanders, epizootic lymphangitis, Histoplasma farciminosum infection, Japanese farcy, Lymphangitis epizootica, Neapolitan farcy, pseudofarcy, pseudoglanders), mormo africano (African glanders, epizootic lymphangitis, Histoplasma farciminosum infection, Japanese farcy, Lymphangitis epizootica, Neapolitan farcy, pseudofarcy, pseudoglanders), linfangite epizoótica (African glanders, epizootic lymphangitis, Histoplasma farciminosum infection, Japanese farcy, Lymphangitis epizootica, Neapolitan farcy, pseudofarcy, pseudoglanders), laparão japonês (African glanders, epizootic lymphangitis, Histoplasma farciminosum infection, Japanese farcy, Lymphangitis epizootica, Neapolitan farcy, pseudofarcy, pseudoglanders), laparão de África (African glanders, epizootic lymphangitis, Histoplasma farciminosum infection, Japanese farcy, Lymphangitis epizootica, Neapolitan farcy, pseudofarcy, pseudoglanders). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

linfangitis epizootica (African glanders, epizootic lymphangitis, Histoplasma farciminosum infection, Japanese farcy, Lymphangitis epizootica, Neapolitan farcy, pseudofarcy, pseudoglanders). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

epizootisk lymfangit hos häst (African glanders, epizootic lymphangitis, Histoplasma farciminosum infection, Japanese farcy, Lymphangitis epizootica, Neapolitan farcy, pseudofarcy, pseudoglanders). (various references)

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Ancestral Language Translations: HISTOPLASMA

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Latin500 BCE-Modern

Histoplasma capsulatum, Lymphangitis epizootica. (various references)

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Anagrams: HISTOPLASMA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-h-i-l-m-o-p-s-s-t"

-2 letters: hospitals.

-3 letters: alphosis, apostils, asphalts, haplosis, hospital, impastos, lipomata, palmists, psalmist, topsails.

-4 letters: ahimsas, amatols, apostil, asphalt, asthmas, holisms, holists, impalas, impasto, imposts, lipomas, malthas, matsahs, mishaps, misstop, omphali, optimal, palmist, pastils, pistols, plasmas, postals, salamis, saltish, sapotas, shaloms, shamois, smaltos, solatia, somital, sophism, sophist, spathal, spatial, spilths, spitals, stasima, tahsils, tapalos, thalami.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-h-i-l-m-o-p-s-s-t"
 

+4 letters: pharmacologists.

 

+5 letters: hypercatabolisms.

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Alternative Orthography: HISTOPLASMA


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 49 53 54 4F 50 4C 41 53 4D 41

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01001001 01010011 01010100 01001111 01010000 01001100 01000001 01010011 01001101 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#73 &#83 &#84 &#79 &#80 &#76 &#65 &#83 &#77 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0049 0053 0054 004F 0050 004C 0041 0053 004D 0041

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4243535449504635534735

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Images: Photo Album
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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