Larval

There are little flatworms called larval trematodes that infect frogs. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Since this metamorphosis-preventing hormone keeps the insect in the larval form, it is called the larval hormone, or even the juvenile hormone. ❋ Asimov, Isaac (1963)

Some patients also found so-called larval therapy more painful, according to the study in the British Medical Journal.

But because debridement is an important part of wound management, maggot therapy (also called larval therapy) is on the rise. clinical trials of maggot therapy, note Jo C. Dumville, PhD, of the University of York, ❋ Unknown (2009)

Now, a major focus of research in equine parasitology is on the small strongyles and a disease caused by this group of helminths called larval cyathostomosis, previously referred to as larval cyanthostomiasis. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Bleeding from the areas of inflammation can lead to anaemia and there is a very serious complication from the emergence of large numbers of encysted strongyles called larval cyathostomosis, resulting in severe irritation of the gut and a serious reduction in normal gut action, which can lead to colic and death. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Thus, then, the captor of one of these baby sea-squirts though he knew nothing of the peculiar after-history of the creature, would yet be sure that he had here a very young or 'larval' stage of one of the backboned animals. ❋ Various (1873)

This was thought to be in response to different environmental factors such as larval habitats, infectious agents and predators. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The zooplankton eaten by salmon are tiny marine animals, such as larval-stage crustaceans, while the phytoplankton eaten by salmon are small, plant-like marine organisms. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Zooplankton are tiny marine animals, such as larval-stage crustaceans, while phytoplankton are single-cell marine organisms. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Ooh!" he exclaims at one point, and then sighs, "Some kind of larval caterpillar." ❋ Unknown (2009)

"You can do many surveys, but when you sample fish or larval fish, you never have enough of a sample to be absolutely certain" of the future impact of the spill. ❋ Gautam Naik (2011)

Protesting is merely a tactic, though; it is by its nature only the larval stage of a movement that either ripens into an enduring thread of our society, or dies. ❋ Daniel Cluchey (2011)

Even Vera Elena Anaya, the beautiful woman the doc creates -- in the image of his dead wife and "made to measure" for himself -- has a larval look in her flesh-toned unitard and non-burn skin too unblemished to look human. ❋ Erica Abeel (2011)