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Albicans
Albicans may refer to:
- Corpus albicans, the regressed form of the corpus luteum in anatomy
- Candida albicans, a yeast-like fungus species
- Casearia albicans, a plant species endemic to Malaysia
- Havardia albicans, a perennial tree which grows to 5 m tall native to the Yucatan Peninsula
- Oxalis albicans, a North American species of perennial herbs in the woodsorrel family
- Sumbaviopsis albicans, the sole species of the genus Sumbaviopsis, native to Yunnan, the eastern Himalayas, and Southeast Asia
Usage examples of "albicans".
Prince Q (as would anyone who refuses to eat pretty much anything but Töblerone) suffers chronically from Candida albicans, with attendant susceptibilities to monilial sinusitis and thrush, the yeasty sores and sinal im-pactions of which require almost daily drainage in the cold and damp of early-spring Boston, U.
Gentle and the equally hygiene-and-germ-obsessed wife of Canada's 'Minister of Environ ment and Resource-Development Enterprises,' the affair presented as doomed and uncon summated because the Minister hires a malevolent young Canadian Candida albicans specialist to induce in his wife a severe and more or less permanent yeast infection, driving both wife and Gentle to ardent-desire-v.