Terms Associated with Fungi

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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

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