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mycotic

American  
[mahy-kot-ik] / maɪˈkɒt ɪk /

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or caused by a fungus.


Other Word Forms

  • postmycotic adjective
  • premycotic adjective

Etymology

Origin of mycotic

myc- + -otic

Example Sentences

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When Candida auris was first spreading, said Meghan Marie Lyman, a CDC medical epidemiologist for the mycotic diseases branch, the cases were linked to people who had traveled to the U.S. from other places.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 27, 2023

Dr. Meghan Lyman, a medical officer in the mycotic diseases branch of the C.D.C., said that the agency did not have a good sense of how many deaths to attribute to the fungus.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2023

The fungus apparently “arrived in the United States only in the past few years,” said Tom Chiller, chief of the CDC’s mycotic diseases branch.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 4, 2016

Page and Frothingham were first to recognize its mycotic nature in the United States.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.

In examining a case of mycotic stomatitis it is important not to mistake it for foot-and-mouth disease, which has appeared in this country on six occasions only.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry