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anticandida

anticandida adjective: acting to combat or prevent an infection with the yeast Candida albicans.

Adjective

anticandida (not comparable)

  1. Acting to combat or prevent an infection with the yeast Candida albicans
    • With nothing to lose at this stage, Truss gave the patient a known anticandida medication, and almost miraculously the symptoms disappeared and the man quickly recovered.1988 January 22, Robert McClory, “The Yeast of Our Problems”, in Chicago Reader

Origin of anticandida

From anti- + candida.

Questions about anticandida

What does anticandida mean?
Anticandida means acting to combat or prevent an infection with the yeast Candida albicans.
What part of speech is anticandida?
Anticandida is an adjective.

Words near anticandida in the dictionary

  1. anticanal
  2. anticancer
  3. anticancerogenic
  4. anticancerous
  5. anticandicidal
  6. anticandida
  7. anticandidal
  8. anticannibal
  9. anticannibalism
  10. anticannibalistic
  11. anticanon

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