noun
definition
A drug for the treatment of intestinal worm infestation, either by killing the worms or by causing them to be expelled from the body.
adjective
definition
(pharmaceutical effect) Destructive to parasitic intestinal worms.
example
Research is progressing well on finding native plants with anthelmintic properties.
Examples of anthelmintic in a Sentence
Galen is said to have invented hiera-picra, which he employed as an anthelmintic; it is still used in England as a domestic remedy.
Malefern, santonine, thymol and other anthelmintic remedies are prescribed.
Its chief use is as an anthelmintic to destroy the Ankylostoma duodenale.
The plant is poisonous, acting as a powerful local and general stimulant, diaphoretic, emmenagogue and anthelmintic; it was formerly employed both internally and externally.
Oil of turpentine (Oleum terebinthinae) is administered internally as an anthelmintic to kill tapeworm.
In large doses oil of turpentine causes purging and may induce much haemorrhage from the bowel; it should be combined with some trustworthy aperient, such as castor oil, when given as an anthelmintic. It is readily absorbed unchanged and has a marked contractile action upon the blood vessels.
A white oral suspension of fenbendazole as a ready to administer oral anthelmintic for domestic dogs, cats, puppies and kittens.
Occasional treatments with an oral anthelmintic may be used only where these methods fail to control the problem.
The intention to rotate between anthelmintic classes should not be allowed to take precedence over other more important decisions about selection of anthelmintic classes should not be allowed to take precedence over other more important decisions about selection of anthelmintics.
Uses A broad-spectrum anthelmintic for the treatment and control of adult and immature roundworms of the gastro-intestinal tract in horses and other equines.
This contrast highlights the need for an effective anthelmintic program to aid the health status of animals.
The infusion is useful as a bitter tonic - a group of substances of which calumba is the type - and is also a very efficient anthelmintic for the threadworm (Oxyuris vermicularis).