| Gilchrist's disease | <disease> A fungal infection caused by Blastomyces dermatitidis. This rare fungal infection may produce inflammatory lesion of the skin or lungs or present as a disseminated disease to the skin, lungs, bones, liver, spleen and central nervous system. Uncommon unless patient is immunocompromised (AIDS). (27 Sep 1997) |
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| Gilchrist's mycosis | An obsolete term for blastomycosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gilchrist, Thomas | <person> U.S. Physician, 1862-1927. See: Gilchrist's disease, Gilchrist's mycosis. (05 Mar 2000) |