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Medical Term

fungus

also: fungi

any of a large order of single-celled plants that lack chlorophyll and reproduce by spores. Some forms are infectious, in the same way as BACTERIA , e.g. RINGWORM , and others are used in the production of ANTIBIOTICS .

Source: mediLexicon corpus · slug fungus