candida

noun

candida

noun

Etymology Borrowed from translingual Candida, from Latin candida.

1

Medicine, Sciences Informal A yeast of the genus Candida, usually specifically Candida albicans

  • "What we're finding," says Marshall, "is that if we lean only on candida and don't treat other molds affecting the system, we fail.1988 January 22, Robert McClory, “The Yeast of Our Problems”, in Chicago Reader:
Derived terms
anticandida, anticandidal, candida-like, candidastatic

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