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Definition of Antimalarials
1. antimalarial [n] - See also: antimalarial
Medical Definition of Antimalarials
1. Agents used in the treatment of malaria. They are usually classified on the basis of their action against plasmodia at different stages in their life cycle in the human. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Antimalarials
Literary usage of Antimalarials
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Getting Fit Your Way: A Self-paced Fitness Guide (1993)
"Investigators discovered antimalarials could also be used to treat the joint pain
that ... Subsequent use of antimalarials showed that they are effective in ..."
2. Modern Materia Medica and Therapeutics by Arthur Albert Stevens (1909)
"antimalarials, antimalarials are drugs that exert a curative influe malaria ...
Many other drugs have be< ommended as antimalarials, but they have not been ..."
3. Pharmacology and Therapeutics for Students and Practitioners of Medicine by Horatio Charles Wood (1916)
"antimalarials. CINCHONA. Materia Medica.—The trees comprising the genus Cinchona,
of which there are many species recognized by botanists, are handsome ..."
4. The Female Client and the Health-Care Provider by Janet Hatcher Roberts, Carol Vlassoff (1995)
"In both settings, approximately 90% of women perceived malaria as a health threat
during pregnancy and believed that antimalarials could be an effective ..."
5. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"The inhibitory effects of chloroquine and the naphthoquinone are the most
pronounced, and the effects of the four antimalarials differ considerably in ..."
6. Health Information for International Travel by DIANE Publishing Company (1996)
"The amount of drug transferred is not thought to be harmful to a nursing infant.
Because the quantity of antimalarials transferred in breast ..."
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