torulan.
/ˈtɔːjuːlə//ˈtɒrjʊlə/ Biology.
literal. A small rounded swelling or bulge: (a) each of the minute rounded cells of various fungi or microbes, as the yeast-plant and certain endoparasitic organisms; also, a chain of such cells; (b) (with capital initial) a genus of fungi, chiefly fermentative (introd. by Persoon, 1796).
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the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > microscopic fungi
Monilia1751
torula1833
Sarcina1842
Aspergillus1847
Penicillium1893
chytrid1903
mycete1972
the world > life > biology > substance > cell > [noun] > arrangement of
torula1833
palisade1875
palisade layer1886
cytoarchitecture1908
chain1910
cytoarchitectonics1920
palisading1929
the world > life > biology > substance > cell > types of cells > [noun] > other types of cells
reticular cell1832
torula1833
reserve cell1842
subcell1844
parenchyma cell1857
pedicel cell1858
nettle cell1870
heterocyst1872
prickle cell1872
angioblast1875
palisade cell1875
sextant1875
spindle cell1876
neuroblast1878
body cell1879
plasma cell1882
reticulum cell1882
stem cell1885
Langhans1886
basal cell1889
pole cell1890
myelocyte1891
statocyst1892
mast cell1893
thrombocyte1893
iridocyte1894
precursor1895
nurse cell1896
amacrine1900
statocyte1900
mononuclear1903
oat cell1903
myeloblast1904
trochoblast1904
adipocyte1906
polynuclear1906
fibrocyte1911
akaryote1920
Rouget cell1922
Sternberg–Reed1922
amphicyte1925
monoblast1925
pericyte1925
promyelocyte1925
pituicyte1930
agamete1932
sympathogonia1934
athrocyte1938
progenitor1938
Reed–Sternberg cell1939
submarginal1941
delta cell1942
mastocyte1947
squame1949
podocyte1954
transformed cell1956
transformant1957
spheroplast1958
pinealocyte1961
immunocyte1963
lactotroph1966
mammotroph1966
minicell1967
proheterocyst1970
myofibroblast1971
cybrid1974
1833 W. J. Hooker Brit. Flora II. ii. 359 (Genus) Tórula. Pers. Sporidia chained together into moniliform erect flocci.
1860 M. J. Berkeley Outl. Brit. Fungol. 326 Torula, P. Spores tomiparous, simple.
1861 H. Macmillan Footnotes from Nature 243 In all saccharine fluids undergoing the alcoholic and even the acetous fermentation these minute torulæ or yeast-cells make their appearance.
1875 T. H. Huxley & H. N. Martin Course Elem. Biol. i. 2 Each granule [of yeast] (which is termed a Torula) is..a round, or oval, transparent body... The Torulæ are either single, or associated in heaps or strings.
1875 T. H. Huxley & H. N. Martin Course Elem. Biol. iv. 26 Bacteria, like Torulæ and Protococci, are not killed by drying up, and from their excessive minuteness they must be carried about still more easily than Torulæ are.
Derivatives
torulaceous adj. /-ˈleɪʃəs/ consisting of torulæ; belonging to the order Torulacei of fungi.
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the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [adjective] > of or relating to microscopic fungi
mycodermatous1848
microdermatous1857
toruloid1874
torulaceous1876
monilioid1928
monilial1947
1876 tr. P. Schützenberger On Fermentation 205 The torulaceous growth is developed with difficulty, and the transformation is very slow.
ˈtoruliˌform adj. (erron. torulaform) (see -form comb. form2), having the form of a torula or chain of rounded cells, moniliform.
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the world > life > biology > substance > cell > [adjective] > arrangement of
palisaded1874
toruliform1876
trilaminar1889
cytoarchitectonic1905
cytoarchitectural1912
1876 J. Van Duyn & E. C. Seguin tr. E. L. Wagner Man. Gen. Pathol. 92 The filaments are not constricted at the joints, like the moniliform chains (torulaform) of the globular bacteria.
ˈtoruloid adj. resembling a torula; belonging or allied to the genus Torula.
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the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [adjective] > of or relating to microscopic fungi
mycodermatous1848
microdermatous1857
toruloid1874
torulaceous1876
monilioid1928
monilial1947
1874 M. C. Cooke Fungi 120 Formation of networks of mycelium, or masses of toruloid cells.
toruˈlosis n. [-osis suffix] Pathology = cryptococcosis n.
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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
1929 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 9 Feb. 438/1 Acute miliary torulosis of the lungs follows a blood stream dissemination of the torula organisms from some chronic lesion.
1974 S. L. Robbins Pathol. Basis Dis. xxxii. 1494/1 European blastomycosis is known more commonly as cryptococcosis or torulosis... It is caused by a blastomyces known as Cryptococcus hominis or Torula histolytica.
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