albicans

[ ăl′bĭ-kănz′ ]

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n. pl. al•bi•can•ti•a (ăl′bĭ-kăn′tē-ə)

The white fibrous scar tissue in an ovary that results after the involution and regression of the corpus luteum.corpus albicans

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Laycock sees it in the bacilli and spores of oidium albicans; Wilks, however, found the same parasite in other affections.
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Also to enable the Oidium albicans to attack the mucous membrane there must be some slight inflammation or injury.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4|Various
Even in healthy babies Oidium albicans may be present, and in older children the pseudo-diphtheria bacillus.
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Berg, in 1839–41, showed that thrush is likewise due to a fungus, Oidium albicans.
The Fundamentals of Bacteriology|Charles Bradfield Morrey

Altland did not describe the gross external appearance of the corpus albicans.
Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz|John M. Legler