Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
tor·u·la Pronunciation:
'tor-y&-l&, 'tär- Function:
noun 1 plural tor·u·lae /-"lE,-"lI/ also tor·u·las a : any of various yeasts or fungi resembling yeasts that lack sexual spores, do not produce alcoholic fermentations, and aretypically acid formers
b : CRYPTOCOCCOSIS 2 capitalized a : agenus of usually dark colored chiefly saprophytic imperfect fungi (family Dematiaceae)
b in some classifications : a genus of yeasts including pathogens (as
T.histolytica syn.
Cryptococcus neoformans that causes cryptococcosis) usually placed in the genus
Cryptococcus