There was something
fungoid in the oily brown skin, something in the clumsy deliberation of the tedi- ous movements unspeakably nasty.
Tree-ferns and mosses and a myriad other parasitic forms jostled with gay-coloured
fungoid growths for room to live, and the very atmosphere itself seemed to afford clinging space to airy fairy creepers, light and delicate as gem-dust, tremulous with microscopic blooms.
They have a parboiled appearance, are afflicted with hang-nails, while the nails are broken and discoloured, and the edges of the quick seem to be assuming a
fungoid sort of growth.
Before me, squatting together upon the
fungoid ruins of a huge fallen tree and still unaware of my approach, were three grotesque human figures.
True, he had beheld shooting stars (this in reply to Bassett's contention); but likewise had he beheld the phosphorescence of
fungoid growths and rotten meat and fireflies on dark nights, and the flames of wood- fires and of blazing candle-nuts; yet what were flame and blaze and glow when they had flamed and blazed and glowed?
Upon awakening, he realizes, almost too late as he hears shuffling movements approaching his room, that the
fungoid beings (the Migo) are coming for him and that the dream landscapes are not fantasy, but representative of a real location somewhere else in space-time.
The meningothelial tumors have been described in literature by different authors using variable terms, such as "epithelioma", or "dural endothelioma", or "angioendothelioma", or "fungus of the dura mater", or "
fungoid tumors", or "psammoma", or "fibrosarcoma", or "meningeal fibroblastoma", or "meningoblastoma", or "mesothelioma of the meninges" [26-28].
* 57150, Irrigation of vagina and/or application of medicament for treatment of bacterial, parasitic, or
fungoid disease
He further likens the praise singers to the griots in Urhobo folklore who sang praises to Ogiso even in the midst of tyranny by saying "those griots kissing Ogiso's
fungoid feet/and stoking fires of torture in Aso Rock" (26).