candidiasis

English

Etymology

Candida +‎ -iasis

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkændɪˈdaɪəsɪs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

candidiasis (countable and uncountable, plural candidiases)

2. (biology, medicine) A fungal infection due to any species of yeasts in the genus Candida or those that were formerly classified in the genus Candida but are now classified in the genus Candidozyma.

   Near-synonyms: yeast infection (precisely hypernymous), thrush (oral or vaginal forms)

Derived terms

• congenital cutaneous candidiasis
• oral candidiasis

Translations

fungal infection

• Akan: odeepua
• Catalan: candidiasi f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 念珠菌症 (niànzhūjūnzhèng)

• Czech: kandidóza (cs) f
• Danish: trøske c
• Dutch: spruw (nl) f
• Faroese: trøska f
• Finnish: hiivasienitulehdus (fi)
• French: candidose (fr) f
• German: Kandidose f
• Greek: καντιντίαση f (kantintíasi)
• Hungarian: candida-fertőzés
• Irish: ionfhabhtú giosta m
• Italian: candidosi (it) f, mughetto (it) m
• Japanese: 鵞口瘡 (がこうそう, gakōsō)
• Portuguese: candidíase (pt) f, sapinhos m pl
• Romanian: candidoză (ro) f
• Russian: кандидо́з (ru) m (kandidóz)
• Slovak: kandidóza f
• Spanish: candidiasis (es) f, sapito m
• Swedish: torsk (sv) c
• Turkish: kandidiyaz (tr), kandidoz (tr)
• Welsh: llindag m, gân m or f

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kandiˈdjasis/ [kãn̪.d̪iˈð̞ja.sis]
• Rhymes: -asis
• Syllabification: can‧di‧dia‧sis

Noun

candidiasis f (plural candidiasis)

1. candidiasis

Further reading

• “candidiasis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025