CANDIDIASIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does candidiasis mean? 

• CANDIDIASIS (noun)
  The noun CANDIDIASIS has 1 sense:

1. an infection caused by fungi of the genus Monilia or Candida (especially Candida albicans)

  Familiarity information: CANDIDIASIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CANDIDIASIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An infection caused by fungi of the genus Monilia or Candida (especially Candida albicans)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

candidiasis; monilia disease; moniliasis

Hypernyms ("candidiasis" is a kind of...):

fungal infection; mycosis (an inflammatory condition caused by a fungus)

Meronyms (parts of "candidiasis"):

Candida albicans; Monilia albicans (a parasitic fungus that can infect the mouth or the skin or the intestines or the vagina)

vaginitis (inflammation of the vagina (usually associated with candidiasis))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "candidiasis"):

thrush (candidiasis of the oral cavity; seen mostly in infants or debilitated adults)

 Context examples 

A clinical syndrome characterized by development, usually in infancy or childhood, of a chronic, often widespread candidiasis of skin, nails, and mucous membranes.

(Chronic Mucocutaneous Candidiasis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Signs include upper and lower respiratory tract bacterial infections, malabsorption, diarrhea, and mucocutaneous candidiasis.

(Bare Lymphocyte Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Candidiasis usually affects the mouth (oral candidiasis); however, rarely, it spreads throughout the entire body.

(Candidiasis, NCI Dictionary)

Viral infections include cytomegalovirus (CMV) and hepatitis C. Fungi cause thrush (candidiasis), cryptococcal meningitis, pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) and histoplasmosis, and parasites cause crypto (cryptosporidiosis) and toxo (toxoplasmosis).

(HIV/AIDS and Infections, NIH)

Also called candidiasis and thrush.

(Candidosis, NCI Dictionary)