aspergillosis
/æˌspɜːdʒɪˈləʊsɪs/noun
mass noun
1- a condition in which certain fungi infect the tissues. It most commonly affects the lungs, owing to inhalation of spores from mouldy hay, and is then informally called farmer's lung.曲霉病。
1.1
- The fungi are blackish moulds of the genus Aspergillus, subdivision Deuteromycotina.该真菌为曲霉属, 系略呈黑色的霉菌, 半知菌亚门。
词源
late 19th cent.: from modern Latin Aspergillus, from ASPERGILLUM, +-OSIS.