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Proboscis(medicine)
proboscis(dictionary)
proboscis monkey(encyclopedia)
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fungal(dictionary)
Fungal(health)
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fungal diseases (sh) and proboscis (iou)


fungal diseases (sh)




or mycoses

Diseases caused by any fungus that invades the tissues.

Superficial fungal infections (e.g., athlete's foot) are confined to the skin. Subcutaneous infections, which extend into tissues and sometimes adjacent structures such as bone and organs, are rare and often chronic. In systemic infections, fungi spread through the body of a normal (or, more often, an immunosuppressed) host. Some fungal diseases (e.g., yeast infections) may be either superficial or systemic, affecting certain target organs.


proboscis (iou)



proboscis noun. , -scises. E17.
[Latin from Greek proboskis lit. 'means of providing Food', formed as PRO-2 + boskein (cause to) feed.]
An elephant's trunk; the long flexible snout of some Other mammals, e.g. the tapir and the proboscis monkey. E17.
A person's nose. joc. M17.
An elongated, often tubular and flexible, mouth part of many insects; an extensible tubular sucking organ in some worms. M17.
Comb.: proboscis monkey a large leaf-monkey, Nasalis larvatus, of Borneo, the male of which has a long pendulous nose.