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- v. become like a fungus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A salt of fungic acid.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In pathol., to grow up rapidly in forms suggesting some of the larger fungi: said of morbid growths.
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They show a tendency to ulcerate and fungate, giving rise to a fœtid discharge, and may be mistaken for epithelioma; they are also liable to become the seat of epithelioma.
The infected glands tend to become fixed to the bone, and while at first extremely hard, so much so that they simulate a bony tumour of the jaw, they later soften, liquefy, and fungate (Fig. 244).
The gum almost buries the teeth, and large polypoid masses form which tend to fungate.
The round-cell type is the most common; it grows rapidly, and tends to ulcerate and fungate, pain becoming severe when the growth has broken down.