maggot therapy

English

Noun

maggot therapy (uncountable)

1. A type of biotherapy in which live, disinfected maggots are introduced into the wound of a human or animal to clean out the necrotic tissue therein.

Translations

type of biotherapy

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蛆蟲療法 / 蛆虫疗法 (qūchóng liáofǎ), 蛆療法 / 蛆疗法 (qūliáofǎ), 蛆療 / 蛆疗 (qūliáo)

• Finnish: toukkahoito, toukkaterapia (fi)
• French: asticothérapie (fr) f
• German: Madentherapie (de) f
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: larwoterapia f
• Portuguese: terapia larval f
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: личинкотерапи́я (ru) f (ličinkoterapíja)
• Spanish: terapia larval f

See also

• fish therapy