A benign tumor or infection caused by actinomycete bacteria, often affecting the jaw or lungs.
From actinomycete plus -oma (a medical suffix meaning tumor or abnormal growth), referring to growths caused by these bacteria.
Actinomycosis was once a serious disease, but it's rare now—it taught doctors how chronic bacterial infections can form strange, stubborn growths that mimic cancer.
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