Euphorine

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Meaning

(taxonomy, countable) A parasitic wasp of the subfamily Euphorinae (a subfamily of Braconidae), characterized by two submarginal cells in the forewing and, usually, a petiolate first gastral tergite..

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1. (taxonomy, countable) A parasitic wasp of the subfamily Euphorinae (a subfamily of Braconidae), characterized by two submarginal cells in the forewing and, usually, a petiolate first gastral tergite.
2. (uncountable) Synonym of phenylurethan, when used medicinally.

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Euphorines are rather unusual hymenopterans in attacking the adult stage of various insects.

The life cycles of these euphorine parasitoids are synchronized with those of their hosts.

Although euphorines usually oviposit between abdominal sclerites, often near the anus, some species exhibit a well-pronounced preference for different sites such as the mouth (Wylie, 1985), whilst others are evidently more plastic in their behaviour (Wylie & Loan, 1984). It is usual for the euphorines that attack beetles to have two, or sometimes more, annual generations on a single generation of their univoltine hosts.

Dr. Sansoni (Therap. Monatsh., September, 1890) has made a number of observations on the action of euphorine in disease.

Euphorine, it would appear, exerts its specific action directly on the micro-organism; but in the tissues -- in other words, in clinical cases -- this action is notably increased by the circumstance that euphorine decomposes, and the decomposition, in part, generated phenic acid.

To cure Michel, who got addicted to euphorine? Well, he cured Michel. And now what?

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