larvate

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adjective

Concealed; obscure; being a masked or doubtful case of disease.

“larvate epilepsy”

Scrabble 10

Meanings

adjectivelarvate (not comparable)
  1. not comparablemedicineConcealed; obscure; being a masked or doubtful case of disease.

    larvate epilepsy

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    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

    1898, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, page 165

    He emphasized the point that tuberculosis had proven to be present in 66 per cent of post mortems either as the direct cause of death or as complications or obsolete, and that our clinical records do not show such a large percentage of tubercular cases by far, that consequently "larvate" (or masked) tuberculosis must very often be mistaken for other diseases

    1899, Burnside Foster, Saint Paul Medical Journal, page 105

    Masked or larvate malaria, like pernicious malaria, needs complete overhauling. Nearly every disease in the category has been confounded with malaria and classed as larvate. This heterogeneous group has been expanded to embrace diseases unrelated to malaria, diseases complicating malaria, and symptoms and sequelæ of malaria.

    1909, William Heiskell Deaderick, A Practical Study of Malaria, page 232
verblarvate (third-person singular simple present larvates, present participle larvating, simple past and past participle larvated)

present singular third person larvates · participle present larvating · participle past larvated · past larvated

  1. To develop into larvae.

    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 […]

    1967, American Journal of Veterinary Research
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    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.

    2016 December 19, Stephen J. Ettinger, Edward C. Feldman, Etienne Cote, Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine - eBook: Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine - eBook, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 1419

    The female's eggs are passed in the feces and larvate within 9–10 days when temperatures are between 77 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit . If conditions are cooler, the eggs may take as long as 35 days to larvate. Freshly deposited whipworm eggs are resistant to cold but are readily[…]

    2023 March 9, Linda P. Case, The Dog: Its Behavior, Nutrition, and Health, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 266

Origin

  1. Latinlarvātus
  2. Englishlarvate

First attested in 1846; borrowed from Latin larvātus, from larva (“a mask”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

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