Tinea vs Candida - What's the difference?
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(pathology) A fungal infection of the skin known generally as ringworm.
*1985 , (Peter Carey), Illywhacker , Faber and Faber 2003, p. 6:
*:Her knees were ingrained with dirt, her toes raw with tinea , her fingernails black and broken.
(medicine, informal) A yeast of the genus Candida'', usually specifically ''Candida albicans
* {{quote-news, 1988, January 22, Robert McClory, The Yeast of Our Problems, Chicago Reader
, passage="What we're finding," says Marshall, "is that if we lean only on candida and don't treat other molds affecting the system, we fail. }}
As a proper noun tinea
is .As an adjective candida is
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