Saccharomyces (sak-kar-om'is-es)

Syn.: yeast fungi. A genus of the Fungi, of the order Ascamycetes, being non-chlorophyl a ceo us organisms, forming a group commonly known as the yeast fungi. They include most of the fungi capable of exciting alcoholic fermentation in saccharine liquids, and are able to live without free oxygen. They consist of rounded or ellipsoidal, non-nucleated cells, which, under suitable conditions, reproduce themselves by repeated proce es of budding. S. albicans. See Oidium albicans. S. anginae. A form found in tonsillitis. S. Blanch ard i. A form found in a case of peritonitis, showing a large gelatin i form ma . S. Bu e. A pathogenic form isolated by Bu e in 1894 from the necrotic nodules of the tibia, lungs, spleen, and kidney in a case of general infection with this yeast. S. Cantliei. A form producing seborrhea in children in the tropics. S. cerevisiae. The yeast yeast. S. of conglomerates. beer (or brandy),A brewers' species composed of nearly spherical cells, 5 to 6 /* in diameter, bound together in the form of glomerules or small balls. It occurs on fermenting grapes and at the beginning of the vinous fermentation. S. ellipsoides. Found in a case of otitis media. S. linguae-pilosae. A species present A in species "black found tongue." S. neo for mans. by Sanfelice on the skin of a lemon; productive, when injected into animals, of growths closely resembling sarcoma. S. oval is. The organism of pityriasis capitis and pityriasis alba atrophic ans. S. past eur i an us, S. pastor i an us. An organism forming in the fermentation of beer and the last stage of the fermentation of cider and wine. S. ranulatus. A form present in a tumor of the submaxillary bone. S. Samboni. A form causing dermatitis of the cruroscrotal region. S. tumiefaciens. Found by Curtis in a benign tumor. See also blastomycetes. [Gr., sakcharon, sugar, + mykes, a fungus.]