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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of minute saprolegnious fungi, parasitic on the skin of man, where they grow luxuriantly in and beneath the epidermis, in the hair-follicles, etc. T. tonsurans produces the skin-disease known as tinea or ringworm. See dermatophyte, tinea.

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  • noun Any member of the fungus genus Trichophyton.

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  • noun a genus of fungus of the family Moniliaceae; causes ringworm and favus

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From the genus name.

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