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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AECZEM
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eruption
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Sentences with SAPROLEGNIA (5)
With nine precious muscoid corpses, more or less ornamented with a lovely fur trimming of Saprolegnia, I shall return to London to-morrow, and shall be ready in a short time, I hope, to furnish Salmon Disease wholesale, retail, or for exportation." [In carrying out the duties of our office, Professor Huxley and I were necessarily thrown into very close communication.
Passing over the locomotor activity of zoospores (_Pythium_, _Peronospora_, _Saprolegnia_) we often find spores held under tension in sporangia (_Pilobolus_) or in asci (_Peziza_) until ripe, and then forcibly shot out by the sudden rupture of the sporangial wall under the pressure of liquid behind--mechanism comparable to that of a pop-gun, if we suppose air replaced by watery sap.
The chief genera are _Saprolegnia, Achlya, Pythiopsis, Dictyuchus, Aplanes._ Motile zoospores which escape from the zoosporangium are present except in Aplanes.
Klebs has shown that the development of zoosporangia or of oogonia and pollinodia respectively in _Saprolegnia_ is dependent on the external conditions; so long as a continued stream of suitable food-material is ensured the mycelium grows on without forming reproductive organs, but directly the supplies of nitrogenous and carbonaceous food fall below a certain degree of concentration sporangia are developed.
This explains the sequence of events in the case of a _Saprolegnia_-mycelium radiating from a dead fly in water.