Larvate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Larvate is an adjective meaning (medicine) Concealed; obscure; being a masked or doubtful case of disease.
Meaning
(medicine) Concealed; obscure; being a masked or doubtful case of disease.
More Meanings
- To develop into larvae.
Example Sentences
larvate epilepsy
Thus, approximately 20.0 % of eggs larvated but failed to hatch. Failure of the eggs to develop into infective larvae in E. coli or fecal cultures at 5 C. agrees generally with the reports of […]
There is much talk about "larvate" forms of malaria - i. e., forms where the organism cannot be found; many of these are undoubtedly not cases of malaria at all, and many are not sufficiently studied
These common roundworms are passed as eggs in feces. The eggs larvate and become infectious after 1 to 3 weeks. The infectious eggs can survive in the environment for months and are the primary source of human infection.
Word Forms
- larvates
- larvating
- larvated
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include abstruse, palliate, arcane, opertaneous, recondite, privy.
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