Meaning of larvate | Babel Free

Definitions

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

not-comparable

Examples

“larvate epilepsy”

“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”

“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”

“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.”

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