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15% of the population [2] Athlete's foot, known medically as tinea pedis, is a common skin infection of the feet caused by a fungus. [2] Signs and symptoms often include itching, scaling, cracking and redness. [3] In rare cases the skin may blister. [6] Athlete's foot fungus may infect any part of the foot, but most often grows between the toes ...
Amanita muscaria. Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric or fly amanita, [5] is a basidiomycete of the genus Amanita. It is a large white- gilled, white-spotted, and usually red mushroom. Despite its easily distinguishable features, A. muscaria is a fungus with several known variations, or subspecies.
2. Trauma. White toenails can also be caused by trauma. "Trauma could cause white spots on the nails or even white lines (leukonychia)," says Dr. Mendeszoon. "Bumping one’s toe or being stepped ...
A condition caused by drinking an unnamed fictional substance only described as "an unstable isotope". Symptoms may include red spots on the skin and a purple tongue, followed by violent bloating and then an explosion. Joy virus The Amazing World of Gumball ("The Joy") A virus that is caused by a "wonder hug".
Tinea versicolor (also pityriasis versicolor) is a condition characterized by a skin eruption on the trunk and proximal extremities. [1] The majority of tinea versicolor is caused by the fungus Malassezia globosa, although Malassezia furfur is responsible for a small number of cases. [2] [3] These yeasts are normally found on the human skin and ...
Blue stain fungi. Blue stain fungi (also known as sap stain fungi) is a vague term including various fungi that cause dark staining in sapwood. [1] The staining is most often blue, but could also be grey or black. Because the grouping is based solely on symptomatics, it is not a monophyletic grouping.
In Mexico, corn smut is known as huitlacoche ( Spanish pronunciation: [ (ɡ)witlaˈkotʃe], sometimes spelled cuitlacoche ). This word entered Spanish in Mexico from Classical Nahuatl, though the Nahuatl words from which huitlacoche is derived are debated. In modern Nahuatl, the word for huitlacoche is cuitlacochin ( Nahuatl pronunciation ...
An earworm happens when you have the “inability to dislodge a song and prevent it from repeating itself” in your head, explains Steven Gordon, M.D ., neurologist at UC Health and assistant ...