HAEMATODES FUNGUS
\hˈiːmɐtˌə͡ʊdz fˈʌŋɡəs], \hˈiːmɐtˌəʊdz fˈʌŋɡəs], \h_ˈiː_m_ɐ_t_ˌəʊ_d_z f_ˈʌ_ŋ_ɡ_ə_s]\
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An extremely alarming carcinomatous affection, which was first described, with accuracy, by Mr. John Burns, of Glasgow. It consists in the development of cancerous tumours, in which the inflammation is accompanied with violent heat and pain, and with fungus and bleeding excrescences. Even when the diseased part is extirpated at a very early period, recovery rarely follows; other organs being generally implicated at the same time. Fungus haematodes was the term first applied to the disease by Mr. Hey of Leeds. Mr. J. Burns called it Spongoid inflammation, from the spongy, elastic feel, which peculiarly characterizes it, and continues even after ulceration has taken place. The disease has, most frequently, been met with in the eyeball, the upper and lower extremities, testicle and mamma; but it occurs in the uterus, ovary, liver, spleen, brain, lungs, thyroid gland, and in the hip and shoulder-joint. Some French surgeons designate, by this name, those tumours which were formerly termed anormales, caverneuses, variqueuses, called Erectiles by Dupuytren, Hematoncies, by Alibert, and Telangiectasiae by Grafe.
By Robley Dunglison
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).