Saccharomyces

(sak-ar-om’is-€z) [Gr. σάκχαρον sugar + μύκης fungus]. A genus of protophytes: the yeast-fungi. The organisms corfsist of oval or spheric cells, single or in chains, sometimes forming a mycelium of filaments, and increasing by spores or buds. 8. albicans, a pathogenic species causing thrush in the mouth: in white, oval, spheric, or cylindric cells, sometimes forming long ents. 8. apicula’tus, a species from fermenting fruit: its oval cells are joined at the ends. u e’s 8., a form discovered in a patient with de- Bu e & nodules in the bones and internal organs. 8. capillit’ii, a species from the scalp, with spheric cells: said to cause pityriasis capitis. 83. cerevis’ise, a species with oval or spheric cells, from brewer’s yeast: it causes alcoholic fermentation. 8. coprog’enus, a form from decomposing feces, in short chains of oval or spheric cells. 8. ellipsoid’eus, a form from wine-yeast, forming elliptic cells, solitary or in branching chains: it causes alcoholic fermentation in wines. 8. exig’- uus, a form in beer-yeast: the cells are.elliptic and solitary, or in branching chains: it causes late fermentation in beer. a lactic’olus, a 5 cies from milk, with ova or elliptic cells: it produces a fermentation in milk. 8. glu’tin is, a non-pathogenic species from air, potatoes, and the skin in seborrhea; its cells are cylindric, oval, or spheric: it forms a rosy pigment. 8. granuloma to’sus, a variety producing granulomatous tumors in pigs. 8. guttula’tus, a species which is able to change glucose into alcohol. It is pathogenic for rats and guinea-pigs. 8. hansen’ii, changes sugars into oxalic acid. 8. hom’ in is, a species occurring in chronic infectious pyemia. It is pathogenic for animals. 8. litho’genes, a species from the lymph-glands of an ox suffering from carcinoma of the liver: pathogenic to animals. 8. mesenter‘icus, a species which causes a fermentation in fruit acids: it is found in fermenting fruits. 8. mycoder’ma, a species from fermenting liquors and diabetic urine, in which it produces a slight fermentation: seen in cylindric, oval, or elliptic cells, forming branched chains. 8. neo for mans, regarded by some as the germ of cancer. 8. pastor i a’nus, a species from fermenting wine and beer: cells oval or clavate. 8. subcuta’neus tumefa’ciens, a species found in a myxoma of the thigh: pathogenic for animals. 8. tumefa’ciens al’bus, a species discovered in certain cases of pharyngitis: pathogenic for mice, guinea-pigs, and rabbits. saccharomycetic (sak’ar-o-mi-set’ik). the presence of yeast-fungi.