visceral larva migrans

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A disease, chiefly of children, caused by ingestion of nematode ova, usually of Toxocara canis, characterized by high eosinophilia and often liver enlargement, fever, cough, and hyperglobulinemia.

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The scenes between Johansson and Adam Pearson, a man with neurofibromatosis, are some of the most delicate and visceral this year.
Oscars 2015: The Daily Beast’s Picks, From Scarlett Johansson to ‘Boyhood’|Marlow Stern|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Inevitably, the old visceral “hands-on” flying skills, no longer much employed by pilots, have atrophied like an unused limb.
Flight 8501 Poses Question: Are Modern Jets Too Automated to Fly?|Clive Irving|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
JUDNICK: My reaction is so visceral that I immediately, like you, isolate myself so I can breathe.
The Unbearable Whiteness of Protesting|Rawiya Kameir, Judnick Mayard|December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
When summer comes, adult beetles attack and larva feed in the cambium layer, girdling the trees and sealing their doom.
What It Takes to Kill a Grizzly Bear|Doug Peacock|November 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST

That single chapter, the most visceral and moving part of The Power Broker, took Caro six months to research and write.
‘The Power Broker’ Turns 40: How Robert Caro Wrote a Masterpiece|Scott Porch|September 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The entire larva is black and the segments of the body possess numerous tubercles bearing setae.
Journal of Entomology and Zoology, March 1917|Various
As soon as it hatches the larva attacks the cricket in the belly at the chosen spot where the egg has been layed.
The Natural Philosophy of Love|Remy de Gourmont
The larva of the hemerolicus feeds also on the aphides, and deposits its eggs on the leaves of such plants as are beset with them.
The Book of Curiosities|I. Platts
What a shelter for the larva of this Pompilus: the warm retreat and downy hammock of the Segestria!
More Hunting Wasps|J. Henri Fabre
No doubt the food for her family, the larva of which I possess the empty skin, now an unrecognizable shred.
More Hunting Wasps|J. Henri Fabre