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ANTIMALARIAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A medicinal drug used to prevent or treat malaria
Synonyms:
antimalarial; antimalarial drug
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("antimalarial" is a kind of...):
antiprotozoal; antiprotozoal drug (a medicinal drug used to fight diseases (like malaria) that are caused by protozoa)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "antimalarial"):
chloroquine (an antimalarial drug used to treat malaria and amebic dysentery and systemic lupus erythematosus)
Larium; mefloquine; mefloquine hydrochloride; Mephaquine (an antimalarial drug (trade name Larium and Mephaquine) that is effective in cases that do not respond to chloroquine; said to produce harmful neuropsychiatric effects on some people)
primaquine (synthetic antimalarial drug)
Atabrine; mepacrine; quinacrine; quinacrine hydrochloride (a drug (trade name Atabrine) used to treat certain worm infestations and once used to treat malaria)
quinine (a bitter alkaloid extracted from chinchona bark; used in malaria therapy)
Context examples:
A new antimalarial candidate could pave the way for a single-dose treatment that boosts malaria eradication when used in combination with other preventative measures.
(Antimalarial candidate holds promise as a single dose, SciDev.Net)
Treatment is the same, with a combination of antimalarials such as chloroquine and primaquine.
(Human malaria spread from monkeys found in Brazil, SciDev.Net)
“Such breadth of efficacy of an antimalarial therapy would help accelerate the elimination of malaria.”
(New way to stop falciparum malaria transmission, SciDev.Net)
DHFR is the target of a well-established antimalarial drug, pyrimethamine; however, resistance to the drug among malaria parasites is common, particularly in Africa.
(Toothpaste ingredient may help fight drug-resistant malaria, University of Cambridge)
An orally active 4-aminoquinoline derivative with antimalarial and anti-inflammatory properties.
(Amodiaquine, NCI Thesaurus)
Chaparrinone inhibits protein synthesis, has antimalarial properties, and is cytotoxic to some tumor cells.
(Chaparrinone, NCI Thesaurus)
Bruceantin also has antiamoebic and antimalarial activity.
(Bruceantin, NCI Thesaurus)
The hydrochloride salt of amodiaquine, an orally active 4-aminoquinoline derivative with antimalarial and anti-inflammatory properties.
(Amodiaquine Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)
The compound has broad antibacterial, antifungal, antimalarial, anticancer, insecticidal, and herbicidal activities.
(Scientists Discover Antibiotic Mechanism, NIH)
