ADJECTIVE
- capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms
NOUN
- a medication capable of causing the evacuation of parasitic intestinal worms
How To Use anthelmintic In A Sentence
- Traditionally, ostertagiasis has been prevented by routinely treating young cattle with anthelmintics over the period when pasture larval levels are increasing.
- The other remedial properties of pinkroot consist of anti-bacterial, anti-diarrheic, antioxidant, anthelmintic and laxative. Find Me A Cure
- MTT method showed that extracts of Vernonia anthelmintica Willd. had different effects on tumor cells growth, the extract Q2 had significant growth inhibition on human melanoma A375 cells.
- Use of a narrow spectrum drug rather than a combined fluke and worm drench helps reduce the usage of the broad spectrum wormers and slow the onset of anthelmintic resistance. Chapter 5
- This will reduce the use of anthelmintic wormers and address the growing problem of resistance to anthelmintics in sheep.
- Dr. Heubener, of Bethlehem, has employed the short, rigid hairs of the involucre as a substitute for those of mucuna, and has found them equally anthelmintic. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
- Thiabendazole has been the most commonly used anthelmintic for strongyloidiasis.
- Animals respond well to an improvement in nutrition and/or treatment with an anthelmintic. Chapter 5
- Worms cost these industries $2 billion a year in the United States alone and have started to build resistance to commercial anthelmintics.
- It is astringent, anthelmintic and antiperiodic, highly useful in chronic diarrhoea and dysentery, not only for its astringent effects but for its tonic and restorative action. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines