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ANTIMALARIAL DRUG
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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 drug" 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 drug"):
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)
