mycetoma
noun
mycetoma is a noun meaning “Chronic subcutaneous inflammation caused by infection with certain bacteria or fungi” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-Y-C-E-T-O-M-A, and it appears about once in every 85 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of mycetoma is mycetomas or mycetomata.
What does mycetoma mean?
noun
- 1
Chronic subcutaneous inflammation caused by infection with certain bacteria or fungi.
black mycetoma
- 2
datedSpecifically, the Madura foot form of the eumycetoma form of the disease.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of mycetoma
- mycetomas plural
- mycetomata plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is mycetoma?
Mycetoma appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does mycetoma come from?
From New Latin of the 19th century; by surface analysis, mycete + -oma; the fact that the word predates 20th century microbiology explains why the use of this name is not specific to mycotic disease: the disease was named for fungal and apparently fungal causes, and its full pathophysiology (and the current taxonomy of the various causative pathogens) was learned later.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).