🦠 Kills parasites 💊 A parasite medicine

antiparasitic

4.1

A drug that kills or removes parasites from people and animals

noun
/ˌæntiˈpærəˌsɪtɪk/

Specialized

: antiparasitario

The doctor prescribed an antiparasitic medication for the infection.

Examples

Farmers often use antiparasitics to protect their livestock from harmful worms.
Many antiparasitics are effective against various types of worms.
The doctor prescribed an antiparasitic to treat the patient's intestinal infection.
After traveling abroad, she needed an antiparasitic to recover from a tropical disease.
The doctor prescribed an antiparasitic to treat the patient's intestinal infection.
After traveling abroad, she needed an antiparasitic to recover from a tropical disease.
Farmers often use antiparasitics to protect their livestock from harmful worms.

How Effective

parasiticidal

Specialized

9.3

anthelmintic

Specialized

1 9.9

antiparasitic

Specialized

4.1

remedy

77 3.4

treatment

Specialized

∞ 2.1

Surface Forms

antiparasitic singular

antiparasitics plural

Morphology

antiparasitic = parasitic (transparent) = anti + parasite + ic

Adding anti- to parasitic yields the straightforward meaning 'against parasites'.

Etymology

Antiparasitic joins anti- 'against' and parasite 'a living thing that lives on or in another and takes its food'. As a noun, an antiparasitic is a drug or agent that kills, removes, or stops these parasites, so it is literally 'something against parasites'.