Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various fungi that can cause parasitic skin infections.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A plant that grows upon the skin; a fungus of a low type which is parasitic upon the skin of men and other animals, causing various diseases. The best-known species are Achorion Schœnleinii, the fungus of favus; Trichophyton tonsurans, the fungus of ringworm; and Microsporon furfur.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) A fungus infecting and parasitic on the skin, especially one which causes disease.
Etymologies
- dermato- + -phyte (Wiktionary)
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“Though Trichophyton rubrum is the most common dermatophyte that causes nail fungal infections,”
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