See Also: candicans(medicine)
corpus candicans(medicine)

May Ball (oh) and candicans (medicine)


May Ball (oh)



n [C]
a formal Dance held at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge every year in June. Students dress formally for a May Ball, and it is expensive to go to one.

candicans (medicine)


candicans


One of the corpora albicantia.

Origin: L. Candico, pres. P. -ans, to be whitish