Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The name given to one of the three principal dermatophytes, or epiphytes of the skin.
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Examples
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It will be sufficient here to refer to the forms, achorion, trichophyton, oïdium, aspergillus, and the diseases produced by them, favus, ringworm, and thrush, to show this peculiarity.
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Solely to the invasion of the cutaneous structures, especially the epidermal portion, by the vegetable parasite, the _achorion
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