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 | |
