CANDIDA ALBICANS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Candida albicans mean? 

• CANDIDA ALBICANS (noun)
  The noun CANDIDA ALBICANS has 1 sense:

1. a parasitic fungus that can infect the mouth or the skin or the intestines or the vagina

  Familiarity information: CANDIDA ALBICANS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CANDIDA ALBICANS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A parasitic fungus that can infect the mouth or the skin or the intestines or the vagina

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Candida albicans; Monilia albicans

Hypernyms ("Candida albicans" is a kind of...):

candida (any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Candida)

Holonyms ("Candida albicans" is a part of...):

candidiasis; monilia disease; moniliasis (an infection caused by fungi of the genus Monilia or Candida (especially Candida albicans))

Holonyms ("Candida albicans" is a member of...):

genus Candida (a genus of yeastlike imperfect fungi; sometimes included in genus Monilia of the family Moniliaceae)

 Context examples 

These worms lived longer than controls after being infected with the Candida albicans fungus.

(Alzheimer’s protein may have natural antibiotic role, NIH)

A human papillomavirus (HPV) type 16 vaccine containing four E6 peptides in combination with the extract of Candida albicans, with potential immunomodulating activity.

(HPV-16 E6 Peptides Vaccine/Candida albicans Extract, NCI Thesaurus)

Chronic infection is usually caused by Candida albicans.

(Paronychia, NCI Thesaurus)

The nitrate salt form of omoconazole, a topical imidazole derivative with antifungal activity against Candida albicans, Malassezia furfur and dematophytes.

(Omoconazole Nitrate, NCI Thesaurus)

Undecylenic acid inhibits the morphogenesis of Candida albicans to its invasive fungal form and inhibits conversion of unicellular yeast to their hyphal form.

(Copper Undecylenate, NCI Thesaurus)

A topical imidazole antifugal agent with activity against Candida albicans.

(Chlordantoin, NCI Thesaurus)

Butenafine hydrochloride is active against a number of dermatophytes, including Trichophyton rubrum, Trichophyton mentagrophytes, Microsporum canis, Sporothrix schenckii, and yeasts, including Candida albicans and C. parapsilosis.

(Butenafine Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

Undecylenic acid inhibits the morphogenesis of Candida albicans to its invasive fungal form and inhibits the conversion of unicellular yeast to their hyphal form.

(Calcium Undecylenate, NCI Thesaurus)

A condition in which Candida albicans, a type of yeast, grows out of control in moist skin areas of the body.

(Candidiasis, NCI Dictionary)

A topical imidazole derivative with antifungal activity against Candida albicans, Malassezia furfur and dematophytes.

(Omoconazole, NCI Thesaurus)