cryptococcosis
Pluralcryptococcoses
- 1A serious, sometimes fatal fungal disease caused by members of the Cryptococcus neoformans species complex, usually caught by inhaling infectious particles from the environment.
Cryptococcosis often develops in patients whose immune systems have been weakened by HIV.
The physicians confirmed cryptococcosis after finding the fungus in his spinal fluid.
Note
A name built the regular way: the genus Cryptococcus plus -osis, the suffix for a disease state. The cause is a species complex, a cluster of closely related fungi rather than a single species, and infection by breathing in particles from the environment is still the accepted explanation rather than a proven one. It is usually uncountable (the treatment of cryptococcosis), with the plural cryptococcoses used when cases are counted.
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Origin
Formed from "cryptococcus" combined with the suffix "-osis."