mucormycosis

mucor (“mouldy”) +‎ mycosis (“fungal infection”). From translingual Mucorales, from Latin mucor (“mustiness”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /mju.kəɹ.maɪˈkoʊ.səs/

mucormycosis (countable and uncountable, plural mucormycoses)

1. (pathology, mycology) Any fungal infection caused by fungi in the order Mucorales.
   • 2015 November 11, “Implementation of a Pan-Genomic Approach to Investigate Holobiont-Infecting Microbe Interaction: A Case Report of a Leukemic Patient with Invasive Mucormycosis”, in PLOS ONE‎, →DOI:

     Herein, we characterized the infecting microbe, host, micro- and mycobiomes leading up to infection onset in a leukemia patient that developed invasive mucormycosis.

• (colloquial) black fungus