Under certain conditions, it seems, candida can change from its yeastlike, noninvasive state into a parasitic fungus that spreads like wildfire through the gut.
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Yeastlike
Synonyms for "yeastlike" (9 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Adjective(2 words)
fermentativefungal infection
Strong matches (3)
Adjective(3 words)
Related words (4)
Adjective(3 words)
Noun(1 words)
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More general
7 entriesbiochemical traitcell morphologyfungal morphologymetabolic featurephenotypic descriptortaxonomic markerunicellular form
More specific
6 entriesbudding yeast cellsethanol productionsugar fermentationyeast-form cellsyeastlike dimorphsyeastlike pseudohyphae
Collocations
5 entriesyeastlike cellsyeastlike coloniesyeastlike dimorphismyeastlike growthyeastlike morphology
Inflections
2 entriesmore yeastlikemost yeastlike
Derivations
1 entriesSample sentences
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