单词 | nocardiosis |
释义 | nocardiosis Path.|nəʊkɑːdɪˈəʊsɪs| [f. mod.L. Nocardi-a, the name of a genus of actinomycetes (f. the name of E. I. E. Nocard (1850–1903), French veterinary pathologist + -ia1) + -osis.] Infection with, or a disease caused by, an actinomycete of the genus Nocardia, esp. N. asteroides, which is occas. pathogenic in humans, producing local lesions or more often generalized disease beginning in the lungs but tending to spread to other organs, esp. the brain, and often proving fatal.
1907J. H. Wright in Osler & McGrae Mod. Med. I. xvi. 341 It has been pointed out that if the name Actinomyces be not used for these microörganisms then the only permissible generic term to apply to them..is Nocardia, and disease processes produced by them should be called nocardiosis. 1920Arch. Dermatol. & Syphilol. II. 137 (heading) Nocardiosis cutis resembling sporotrichosis. 1949Amer. Jrnl. Path. XXV. 1 (heading) Pure granulomatous nocardiosis: a new fungus disease distinguished by intracellular parasitism. 1963C. W. Emmons et al. Med. Mycol. ix. 75 Nocardiosis is recognized in the dog oftener than in other domesticated animals. 1974Passmore & Robson Compan. Med. Stud. III. i. xii. 90/2 Nocardiosis and mucormycosis are infections usually acquired by inhaling dusts. |

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