Other Conditions Causing Yellow Toenails. Although fungal infection is the most likely cause of yellow toenails, rarely, some other disease conditions can also result in yellow toenails. Some of these conditions are psoriasis, jaundice, paronychia, lymphedema, bronchiectasis, tuberculosis and sinusitis.
1. a plant or animal that lives upon or within another living organism at whose expense it obtains some advantage; see symbiosis. 2. the smaller, less complete member of asymmetrical conjoined twins, attached to and dependent upon the autosite.parasitÂ´ic. malarial parasite Plasmodium.
Certain fungi species, some insects, protozoan, and helminthes are mainly considered as parasites. In parasitism, the parasites are associated with living tissues or cells of another organism called host, and live at the expense of their host without destroying it. Fungi belong to a single Kingdom called Fungi, whereas parasites belong to several Kingdoms including Bacteria, Protozoa, Fungi and Animalia. â¢ All the parasites cause injuries or diseases to their hosts, whereas only few fungi species cause diseases to human and plants.