candida albicans

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsMonilia albicans

   Broadercandida

   Part ofgenus Candidacandidiasis

Questions about candida albicans

What does candida albicans mean?

candida albicans means "a parasitic fungus that can infect the mouth or the skin or the intestines or the vagina".

What is another word for candida albicans?

Close synonyms include Monilia albicans. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is candida albicans a common word?

candida albicans is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.