Dermatophytes

Dermatophytes (Gr. derma, 'the skin,' and phyton, 'a growth' or 'plant'), vegetable growths, chiefly of the lowest Fungi moulds, &c., inhabiting the cuticle or epidermis, and giving rise to some forms of skin-disease, as Favus (q.v.), Pityriasis (q.v.), Ringworm (q.v.), &c.