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noun
Chronic subcutaneous inflammation caused by infection with certain bacteria or fungi.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
Chronic subcutaneous inflammation caused by infection with certain bacteria or fungi.
Specifically, the Madura foot form of the eumycetoma form of the disease.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, dated, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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History
From New Latin of the 19th century; by surface analysis, mycete + -oma; the fact that the word predates 20th century microbiology explains why the use of this name is not specific to mycotic disease: the disease was named for fungal and apparently fungal causes, and its full pathophysiology (and the current taxonomy of the various causative pathogens) was learned later.
