See Also: Aspergillosis(medicine)
Aspergillosis(health)
aspergillosis(dictionary)
aspergillosis precipitin(medicine)
bronchopneumonic aspergillosis(medicine)
bronchopulmonary aspergillosis(medicine)
pulmonary aspergillosis(medicine)
allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis(medicine)

septier (iou) and Aspergillosis (medicine)


septier (iou)



septier noun. obsolete exc. Hist. E16.
[French, earlier sestier, from Latin sextarius, from sextus sixth.]
A former French unit of capacity equal to about 150 litres (approx. four bushels); a unit of land area equal to about 0.4 hectare (approx. one acre).

Aspergillosis (medicine)


aspergillosis
<disease> A fungal (Aspergillus) infection in the tissues marked by inflammatory granulomatous lesions. This infection may affect the lungs, ear canal, skin or the mucous membranes of the eye, nose or urethra. May cause pulmonary aspergillosis in individuals with asthma. More common in the immunocompromised individual (AIDS).

Symptoms of disseminated disease include cough, haemoptysis, Weight Loss, wheezing, fever, chills, haematuria and decreased urine output. Treatment is with amphotericin B. Not transmissible from human to animals or animals to human.