Medical term:
Mucoraceae
Mu·co·ra·ce·ae
(myū'kō-rā'sē-ē),A family of fungi (class Zygomycetes) comprising terrestrial, aquatic, and sometimes parasitic organisms; includes the genera Mucor, Absidia, Rhizopus, Rhizomucor, Apophysomyces, and Mortierella. Although the various species of the genera are ordinarily saprobic, free-living forms, some of them cause mucormycosis in humans.
[L. mucor, mold]
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