Anthelmintic vs Taenifuge - What's the difference?
anthelmintic | taenifuge | coordinate terms |
(medicine) Destructive to parasitic intestinal worms.
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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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Taenifuge is a coordinate term of anthelmintic.
As nouns the difference between anthelmintic and taenifuge
is that anthelmintic is 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 taenifuge is a medicine to expel tapeworms from a body.As an adjective anthelmintic
is 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.
