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Definition of Anthelmintic
1. Noun. A medication capable of causing the evacuation of parasitic intestinal worms.
Specialized synonyms: Mebendazole, Piperazine, Atabrine, Mepacrine, Quinacrine, Quinacrine Hydrochloride, Carbon Dichloride, Ethylene Tetrachloride, Tetrachlorethylene, Tetrachloroethylene, Thiabendazole, Crystal Violet, Gentian Violet
Generic synonyms: Medicament, Medication, Medicinal Drug, Medicine
Derivative terms: Anthelminthic, Helminthic
2. Adjective. Capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms.
Similar to: Healthful
Derivative terms: Anthelminthic, Helminthic
Definition of Anthelmintic
1. a. Good against intestinal worms.
Definition of Anthelmintic
1. Adjective. (medicine) Destructive to parasitic intestinal worms. ¹
2. Noun. (medicine) A drug for the treatment of intestinal worm infestation, either by killing the worms or by causing them to be expelled from the body. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Anthelmintic
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Medical Definition of Anthelmintic
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Anthelmintic
Literary usage of Anthelmintic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1859)
"... manner in which it ignites when thrown into the air over the flame of a candle.
In the year 1856, I first heard of the anthelmintic properties of the ..."
2. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1859)
"... forms a strong recommendation in its favour, seeing that the majority of
anthelmintic medicines in vogue are very inconvenient in those respects. ..."
3. A Text-book of the Practice of Medicine by James Meschter Anders (1903)
"In combination with the purgatives some anthelmintic (male fern, santonin, thymol)
should be used. The encysted or larval parasites are not accessible to ..."
4. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly by W Braithwaite, James Braithwaite (1859)
"My experience of this drug extends only to its use as an anthelmintic, but it is
largely employed by the French physicians in many spasmodic diseases, ..."
5. A guide to therapeutics by Robert Farquharson (1883)
"GRANATI RADICIS CORTEX. Physiological. Therapeutical. Pomegranate bark destroys
It is much used as an a tape-worm, according to anthelmintic in veterinary ..."
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