Anthelmintic vs Null - What's the difference?
anthelmintic | null |
(medicine) Destructive to parasitic intestinal worms.
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* 1918 , , Abstracts of Bacteriology , Volume 2,
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(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.
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* 2010 , Graham R. Duncanson, Veterinary Treatment for Working Equines ,
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
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absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between anthelmintic and null
is that anthelmintic is (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 while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective anthelmintic
is (medicine) destructive to parasitic intestinal worms.anthelmintic
English
(wikipedia anthelmintic)Alternative forms
* antihelminthicAdjective
(en adjective)- Research is progressing well on finding native plants with anthelmintic properties.
- The parasites thrive in an environment of dirt, and the main lines of precaution are those dictated by sanitary science. Malefern, santonine, thymol and other anthelmintic remedies are prescribed.
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- However, the lighter boiling constituents of tne oil are much less irritating and at the same time they are apparently more anthelmintic than the heavier fraction.
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- Our experiments indicate that this constituent is anthelmintic' and also a gastrointestinal irritant, while the lighter portion of the oil is apparently even more ' anthelmintic and much less irritating.
Noun
(en noun)- The bark of the root is likewise valued as an anthelmintic in cases of tape-worm.
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- Rather than give a long list of the anthelmintics available, I will describe the helminths that cause problems and then suggest methods of control.
null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.