developmental stage

collocation in English

meaningsofdevelopmentalandstage

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developmental
adjective
uk
/dɪˌvel.əpˈmen.təl/
us
/dɪˌvel.əpˈmen.t̬əl/
connected with the development of someone ...
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stage
noun[C]
uk
/steɪdʒ/
us
/steɪdʒ/
a part of an activity or a period ...
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(Definition ofdevelopmentalandstagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Consequently, they can transmit arboviruses to more than one host during the samedevelopmentalstage(intra-stadial transmission).
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Thedevelopmentalstageof the tillers often varied greatly, particularly in late sowings.
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Table 1 shows the ticks arranged by species,developmentalstage, and the season they were collected.
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This procedure was performed very slowly and carefully, since the structures formed during the earlydevelopmentalstageare easily destroyed.
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For eachdevelopmentalstagestudied, embryos originated from groups of different trees.
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This observation might also be explained by a difference in thedevelopmentalstageof neighboring astrocytes.
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The results suggest that the responses to chromatic stimuli of very young subjects (about 2- 6 years) reflect an earlydevelopmentalstage.
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Patients reviewed there lives according to theirdevelopmentalstage, and they mainly reviewed impressive achievements.
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Thedevelopmentalstageof the female parasite does not seem to influence the likelihood of death.
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Hosts which had reached their final (sixth) instar at the time of initial attack yielded parasitoids while remaining within the samedevelopmentalstage.
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There was a separate control treatment that corresponded with each temperature treatment for eachdevelopmentalstage.
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Hope goals are individually defined and are unique to the patient population, influenced by the phase of the illness anddevelopmentalstageof the individual.
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In this light, it is conceivable that language separation and crosslinguistic in-uence are characteristics of the samedevelopmentalstagein a bilingual child.
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Thedevelopmentalstagewas noted and the mortality factor of dead or dying larvae classified as for the grab sampling method.
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These relationships are of vital importance during thedevelopmentalstageof adolescence.
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Five larvae of eachdevelopmentalstagewere then placed in micro-tube caps (13 mm in diameter).
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Historically, dormancy has been inappropriately considered adevelopmentalstageduring which the seed is physiologically inactive.
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The methods described here allow an unknown sample to be analysed rapidly, regardless of itsdevelopmentalstage.
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Similarly, the effects on reproductive activity also depend on thedevelopmentalstageof the host at the time of exposure.
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The authors proposed that children's use of aggression is normative, and that different types of aggression will be used depending on a person'sdevelopmentalstage.
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