Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A name applied chiefly by animal pathologists to a heterogeneous group of fungi occurring as parasites ion man and some of the lower animals.
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The blastomycetes are composed of spherical or oval cells (8 to 9. 5µ in diameter), which, when rapidly multiplying by budding, may form a spurious mycelium.
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During their growth and multiplication the blastomycetes split up solutions containing sugar into alcohol and CO_ {2}.
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-- (This family is perhaps as nearly related to the blastomycetes as it is to the hyphomycetes.)
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