单词 | histoplasmosis |
释义 | histoplasmosisn. Infection with the ascomycete fungus Histoplasma capsulatum, often asymptomatic but also occurring as a mild, acute, febrile pneumonitis, and, less commonly, as a chronic fibrosing or cavitating lung disease or a disseminated infection involving the reticuloendothelial system, esp. of the spleen, liver, and bone marrow.Histoplasmosis occurs in many parts of the world but is particularly common in the central United States. Infection typically results from the inhalation of fungal spores, found especially in soil containing bird or bat droppings. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorder of respiratory organs > [noun] > disorders of lungs > caused by fungus or parasite pneumotyphus1846 pneumonomycosis1875 pneumomycosis1890 psittacosis1896 aspergillosis1898 histoplasmosis1907 nocardiosis1907 parrot disease1908 torulosis1929 coccidioidomycosis1937 valley fever1938 ornithosis1939 farmer's lung1944 parrot fever1947 San Joaquin Valley fever1958 1907 S. T. Darling in Maryland Med. Jrnl. 50 125 (heading) Notes on histoplasmosis—a fatal disorder met with in tropical America. 1955 Sci. Amer. Jan. 44/3 There has been a good deal of question about the mode of spread of histoplasmosis, a lung disease widely prevalent in the Middle West. 1973 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 13 May 40/1 Pigeons on the roof are suspected as the source of an illness called histoplasmosis recently suffered by two law professors. 1989 C. Long Life after City viii. 109 Two of the daughters contracted histoplasmosis from the heritage bat dung in the attic and eaves, severely damaging their vision. 2003 Independent 21 Feb. 3/7 In 1997 he was struck down with a dangerous heart infection called histoplasmosis. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1907 |
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