dermatomycosis

1. 1.

   fungal infection of the skin (especially of moist parts covered by clothing)

   Synonymsdermatophytosis

   Broaderfungal infection

Other forms of dermatomycosis

plural

dermatomycosises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dermatomycosis

What does dermatomycosis mean?

dermatomycosis means "fungal infection of the skin (especially of moist parts covered by clothing)".

How many syllables are in dermatomycosis?

dermatomycosis has 6 syllables: der-ma-to-my-co-sis. The stress falls on "my".

What is another word for dermatomycosis?

Close synonyms include dermatophytosis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dermatomycosis a common word?

dermatomycosis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.