Ep·i·der·moph·y·ton
n : a genus of imperfect fungi that comprises dermatophytes causing disease (as athlete's foot and tinea cruris), that now usu. includes a single species (E. floccosum syns. E. inguinale and E. cruris), and that is sometimes considered a synonym of Trichophyton .
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