Terms |
Details |
ABCL | amphotericin B lipid complex |
Aftate | tolnaftate |
allylamines | a class of antifungal drugs. Example: naftifine - Naftin. |
Amphocil | ABLC |
amphotertericin B | Amphocil, ABLC, Fungizone |
Ancoban | |
Asterol | diamthazole dihydrochloride |
basic fuchsin | an ingredient in fungicides |
black hairy tongue | from fungal infection |
cheese worker's lung disease | from exposure to moldy cheese |
circumstances as yeastlike forms. | |
Clerz | an OTC fungicide |
Desenex | |
Dichlorophene | |
Diflucan | fluconazol |
dimorphic | existing under certain conditions of nature or in the laboratory as a mold and in different environmental/biochemical |
fluconazole | Diflucan, a broad-spectrum fungistatic |
Fulvicin P/G, F. U/F | |
Fungacetin cream | tolnaftate |
Fungimycin | |
Fungi-Nail | sorcinol, salicylic acid, chloroxyenol, benzocaine |
Fungizone | amphotericin B |
Fungizone alcohol combination | |
Fungoid Creme, Fungoid HC Creme | miconazole nitrate |
Gomori methenamine silver stain (GMS stain) | A stain that can demonstrate fungi in tissue. |
Grifulvin V | |
Grisactin | |
griseofulvin | |
Gris-PEG | |
holomorph | see telomorph |
hyphae | filamentous, often branched, structures of yeasts and molds. |
India ink | Writing ink used for examination of spinal fluid and other body fluids to detect cryptococci. |
miconazole nitrate | |
mildew | see mold |
mold | Characterized by the lack of rhizoid formation |
Monistat | |
mushrooms, mushroom poisoning, mushroom worker's disease | from exposure to Thermoactinomyces in compost used for mushrooms |
Mycelia sterilia | A term used to denote those fungi which will not or cannot produce or have not yet been capable of producing other than sterile hyphae. |
mycology | The study of fungi (strictly speaking, the study of fungi would be mycetology, whereas the study of mushrooms is mycology). |
mycosis (plural, mycoses) | An infectious disease caused by a fungus. |
mycostatin | |
Naftin | naftifine HCl |
Neuprex | investigational drug |
nifuroxime | |
Nigrosin | Similar to India ink |
Nilstat | Nystatin |
nitrofurfuryl methyl ether | an ingredient |
Nitrostat | nystatin |
Nizoral | ketoconazole, antifungal agent |
nystatin | Nilstat; Nitrostat |
phaeococcomyces | A group of mycotic infections caused by dematiaceous fungi. |
phenylmercuric preparation | |
ProClearz | |
propionic acid | an ingredient |
ringworm | |
Scorban | |
Sporanox | itraconazole |
telomorph | The sexual (perfect) form of a fungus, AKA holomorph. |
Ting | tolnaftate |
undecylenic acid | |
yeast | That vegetative/reproductive form exhibited by some members of the Kingdom Fungi which is characterized by single cells which reproduce by formation of blastoconidia (buds, daughter cells). |
zinc undecylenate | |