Fungus
microsporidia
Subclass of:
Fungi
Definitions related to microsporidia :
  • (microsporidia) Any fungal organism that can be assigned to the phylum Microsporidia.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
  • (microsporidia) A phylum of fungi comprising minute intracellular PARASITES with FUNGAL SPORES of unicellular origin. It has two classes: Rudimicrosporea and MICROSPOREA.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • (microsporidia) A taxonomic grouping of spore-forming, unicellular, and parasitic fungi that can be assigned to the Microsporidia phylum.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • (microsporidia) Minute intracellular parasites with spores of unicellular origin; they have been treated as protozoa; in the most recent phylogenetic analyses microsporidia branch among the fungi.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
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