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Organism Forms > Life Cycle Stages > Nymph
... > Physiological Phenomena > Growth and Development > Morphogenesis > Metamorphosis, Biological > Life Cycle Stages > Nymph

Preferred term

Nymph  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Note

  • do not use /embryol with reference to nymph

Scope note

  • 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.

History note

  • 91(73); was see under INSECTS 1973-90

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D009758

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