Definitions
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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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.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 Various
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Until recently the ringworm was thought to be due to but one fungus -- the trichophyton; it is now known that there are several forms of fungi, the main forms being the small-spored (microsporon Audouini) and the large-spored (trichophyton).
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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Tinea trichophytina, or ringworm, is a contagious, vegetable-parasitic disease due to the invasion of the cutaneous structures by the vegetable parasite, the trichophyton, or the microsporon Audouinii.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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The markedly inflammatory and pustular types are produced by the large-spore fungus -- trichophyton.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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The cause of the disease, which is of a contagious nature, is a vegetable parasite closely similar to the trichophyton.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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It is believed that such cases are variously due to the trichophyton of ringworm, to the microsporon furfur of tinea versicolor, to the microsporon minutissimus of erythrasma, and to other parasites.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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Ringworm of the bearded region is due to the trichophyton.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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Some of the most common funguses are trichophyton mentagrophytes, epidermophyton floccocum and trichophyton rubrum.
Kansan.com stories <StaffMember: Adam Vossen> 2010
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[2] Categorise into yeast (eg. cryptococcus), yeast-like form (eg. candida), mold (eg. trichophyton), and dimorphic (eg. blastomyces, histoplasma, paracoccidioides).
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Ringworm (rather inflammatory type, and produced by the trichophyton).]
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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