fungoid

  • 71mycosis fungoides — fəŋˈgȯidēz noun Etymology: New Latin, literally, fungoid mycosis : a chronic progressive disease possibly related to leukemia and marked by the development of reddish tumors especially upon the scalp, face, and chest and sometimes by cellular… …

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  • 72fungoidal — fungˈoid / goid/ or fungoidˈal adjective 1. Fungus like 2. Of the nature of a fungus • • • Main Entry: ↑fungus …

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  • 73fun|goid — «FUHNG goyd», adjective, noun. –adj. 1. resembling a fungus or its qualities; of the nature of a fungus. 2. Medicine. having spongy, unhealthful growths. –n. a fungoid plant …

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  • 74pit|y|ri|a|sis — «PIHT uh RY uh sihs», noun. 1. any one of various skin conditions characterized by the formation and eventual peeling off of small scales of skin. 2. a dry, scaly skin condition in domestic animals, occurring during the course of certain fungoid… …

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  • 75HOST, DESECRATION OF — HOST, DESECRATION OF, alleged profanation of the wafer consecrated in the Roman Catholic ceremony of the Eucharist, and believed in the Catholic doctrine of Transubstantiation to become thereby the actual body of Jesus. The doctrine was first… …

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