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anthelmintic
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Since the 1968 meeting of the OAU/STRC on medicinal plants of Africa, held in Dakar, Senegal, and several African countries have started screening their medicinal plants for biocactive principles such as antimicrobial, antihelmintic, antihypertensive, antisickling, antiviral, antimalarial etc.
Chapter 7 1991
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'''Thiabendazole''' is an [[antihelmintic]] drug, a type of [[pharmaceutical]] used to treat worm infections.
SourceWatch - Recent changes [en] Jill Richardson 2010
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'''Thiabendazole''' is an [[antihelmintic]] drug, a type of [[pharmaceutical]] used to treat worm infections
SourceWatch - Recent changes [en] Jill Richardson 2010
chained_bear commented on the word antihelmintic
"Intestinal worms were a common ailment, especially among the young, many of whom died from them. To one girl, McCormick gave '3 antihelmintic powders,' hoping to kill the parasites."
—Edward Ball, Slaves in the Family (NY: Ballantine Books, 1998), 247
October 13, 2009
mollusque commented on the word antihelmintic
Variant of antihelminthic.
October 13, 2009
qroqqa commented on the word antihelmintic
And indeed of anthelminthic, the best-formed derivative from the Greek. The prefix anti- assimilates to a following h.
Conceivably, the change of one of the two <th>'s to <t> could be an authentic reflection of Greek phonetics: Grassmann's law. If the ancient Greeks themselves ever used this word, it would have dissimilated one of the <th>'s. But it's not in Liddell & Scott so I'm afraid that makes it a mere spelling mistake.
October 13, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word antihelmintic
Ball is quoting a nineteenth-century source (a country doctor), so undoubtedly it's a question of either a misspelling or a non-standard spelling of the time period.
October 13, 2009
milosrdenstvi commented on the word antihelmintic
See aphelion for similar comments.
October 13, 2009
mollusque commented on the word antihelmintic
And completing the set, in Google Books, anthelmintic is actually the most common of the four spellings.
October 13, 2009
seanahan commented on the word antihelmintic
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October 19, 2009