Definition of "aspergillosis" [aspergillosis]

• An infection or disease caused by fungi of the genus Aspergillus. (noun)

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• "Predominant diagnoses include asthma and drug reactions, but patients are also seen in evaluation for allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, eczema and other diagnoses."
• "The infection he had had all the while was the same aspergillosis that had nearly killed him months before."
• "He added that Harry was suffering from aspergillosis."