Crossword clues for anthelmintic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
anthelminthic \anthelminthic\, Anthelmintic \An`thel*min"tic\([a^]n`th[e^]l*m[i^]n"t[i^]k), a. [Pref. anti- + Gr. "e`lmins, -inqos, worm, esp. a tapeworm, or mawworm. See also helminth] (Med.) capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms. -- n. An anthelmintic remedy. [Written also anthelminthic.]
Syn: helminthic, parasiticidal
Wiktionary
a. (context medicine English) Destructive to parasitic intestinal worms. alt. (context medicine English) Destructive to parasitic intestinal worms. n. (context medicine English) A drug for the treatment of intestinal worm infestation, either by killing the worms or by causing them to be expelled from the body.
WordNet
adj. capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms [syn: anthelminthic, helminthic, parasiticidal]
n. a medication capable of causing the evacuation of parasitic intestinal worms [syn: vermifuge, anthelminthic, helminthic]
Wikipedia
Anthelmintics or antihelminthics are a group of antiparasitic drugs that expel parasitic worms ( helminths) and other internal parasites from the body by either stunning or killing them and without causing significant damage to the host. They may also be called vermifuges (those that stun) or vermicides (those that kill). They are used to treat people or animals who are infected by helminths, a condition called helminthiasis.
Pills containing anthelmintics are used in mass deworming campaigns of school-aged children in many developing countries. For example, the treatment of choice for soil-transmitted helminths is mebendazole and albendazole and praziquantel for schistosomiasis.
Usage examples of "anthelmintic".
This is decidedly the most reliable anthelmintic known to the medical profession.
Common table salt is an anthelmintic, and may be used in an emergency.
This is also tonic and anthelmintic, and is valuable in debility, dyspepsia, jaundice, and hepatic affections.
Male Fern is the anthelmintic which is considered especially effectual in removing the tape-worm.
In the removal of thread or pin-worms, anthelmintic medicines taken into the stomach are of little or no value.
Pink-root is one of the most active and certain anthelmintics for children.
By reference to the article on anthelmintics in this volume, other valuable vermifuges may be selected, and directions found for their employment.
I sank deeper in my chair and let him get on with it, only half hearing erudite remarks about the latest anthelmintics and their actions on trichostrongyles, haemonchus and ostertagia.
Aside from two chests full of magical apparatus—scrying crystals, sleezewart, anthelmintics, sleepdust, and assorted spellbooks—he carried only enough food, clothing, and niceties to sustain a dozen men for six weeks.
Inermis, or Cabbage Tree of South America and Senegambia, has a narcotic, anthelmintic bark, known as Bastard Cabbage Bark or Worm Bark.
For some years Eucalyptus-chloroform was employed as one of the remedies in the tropics for hookworm, but it has now been almost universally abandoned as an inefficient anthelmintic, Chenopodium Oil having become the recognized remedy.
Helminthocorton (Corsican Moss or Gigartina Helminthocorton) is regarded in Europe as an anthelmintic and febrifuge.