mycosis

(mi-ko’sis) (Gr. μύκης fungus]. Any disfase caused by microbes. m. favo’sa. ee as favus. m. frambosioi’des, yaws.. fun- i’des, a very fatal skin disease marked. by the development upon the face, scalp, and chest of, reddish tumors that are painful and have a 617 MYELATROPHY tendency to spread and ulcerate. The disease leads to cachexia, and usually ends fatally after continuing a number of years. It is probably due to bacterial infection. m. in test in a’lis,