Antiworm

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Preventing or countering worms. not-comparable

    "antiworm medicine"

  2. 2
    Opposite to the usual movements or behaviour of a worm (in studies of predators and prey). not-comparable

    "an antiworm stimulus"

  3. 3
    Countering or preventing worms (self-replicating programs). not-comparable

Example

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"David Molyneux is with the Lymphatic Filariasis Center at the School of Tropical Medicine in Liverpool. He says that drug companies are donating two of the antiworm drugs, ivermectin and albendazole."

Etymology

From anti- + worm.

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