larvaceous

English

Adjective

larvaceous (not comparable)

1. (medicine, rare) Larvate.
   • 1871, Armand Trousseau, Lectures on clinical medicine delivered at the Hôtel-Dieu, page 376:

     I now proceed to speak of larvaceous gout, which as yet I have not discussed.

   • 2019, Xiaobing Fu, Liangming Liu, Severe Trauma and Sepsis: Organ Damage and Tissue Repair, page 214:

     Given the potential infectious factors that make the shock period more unstable, the sudden death caused by septicemia during shock period may largely be attributed to the larvaceous infection with a rather great severity.