fungal infection

Questions about fungal infection

What does fungal infection mean?

fungal infection means "an inflammatory condition caused by a fungus".

What is another word for fungal infection?

Close synonyms include mycosis. 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 fungal infection a common word?

fungal infection 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.