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A genus of filamentous pigment producing fungi that can cause disease in immunosuppressed and immunocompetent patients. Bipolaris species are found in soils and vegetation, have been identified in brain, lung, and sinus infections, and resist treatment with current antifungal medications.  

Muscle fibers that come from each side of a tendon in the manner in which barbs come from the central shaft of a feather.  

Derived from two parents, male and female.  

Derived from or pertain, to two ova.  

In microbiology, a term for variants within a species. These are usually distinguished by certain biochemical or physiological characteristics.  

Injury to the lungs during mechanical ventilation resulting from excessive inflammation (i.e., from the systemic release of damaging cytokines). Biotrauma is one type of ventilatory-induced lung injury.  

A toxin produced by or found in a living organism. A poisonous substance engendered within a biological entity.  

The science that deals with the functions of life.  

Recording physiological parameters such as temperature, heart rate, ECG, and EEG in subjects remote from the investigator. This is done by transmitting and receiving by telephone or other electronic methods.  

Breathing marked by several short breaths followed by long, irregular periods of apnea. It is seen in patients with increased intracranial pressure.