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Life Cycle Stages
Medical Definition: | The continuous sequence of changes undergone by metamorphosing insects and other animals during the post-embryonic development process. |
Guide Notes: | GEN or unspecified; prefer specifics; coord IM with name of organism with /growth (IM) |
Previously Indexed: | Metamorphosis, Biological (1967-1997),specific organism/growth & development (1967-1997) |
Larva - Wormlike or grublike stage, following the egg in the life cycle of insects, worms, and other metamorphosing animals. | |
Nymph - The immature stage in the life cycle of those orders of insects characterized by gradual metamorphosis, in which the young resemble the imago in general form of body, including compound eyes and external wings; also the 8-legged stage of mites and ticks that follows the first moult. | |
Pupa - An inactive stage between the larval and adult stages in the life cycle of insects. |
Life Cycle Stages Medical Definitions and Terms
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