Definition of Anthelmintic

1. Noun. A medication capable of causing the evacuation of parasitic intestinal worms.


2. Adjective. Capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms.
Exact synonyms: Anthelminthic, Helminthic, Parasiticidal
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

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Anthelmintic

1. An agent that is destructive to worms and used for removing internal parasitic worms in animals and humans. Origin: Gr. Helmins = worm (13 Nov 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anthelmintic

anteverted
anteverting
anteverts
antevolate
anthacyclin
anthacyclins
anthanthrene
anthelia
anthelices
anthelion
anthelions
anthelix
anthelixes
anthelmint
anthelminthic
anthelmintic (current term)
anthelmintics
anthelone
anthelone E
anthelone U
anthelotic
anthem
anthema
anthemed
anthemia
anthemic
anthemically
antheming
anthemion
anthemions

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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