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ventriculite (medicine) and Fonsecaea (medicine)


ventriculite (medicine)


ventriculite
<paleontology> Any one of numerous species of siliceous fossil sponges belonging to Ventriculites and allied genera, characteristic of the Cretaceous period.

Many of them were shaped like vases, others like mushrooms. They belong to the hexactinellids, and are allied to the Venus's basket of modern seas.

See: Ventriculus.

Source: Websters Dictionary


Fonsecaea (medicine)


Fonsecaea


A genus of fungi of which at least two species, Fonsecaea pedrosoi and Fonsecaea compacta, cause chromoblastomycosis.