Vermifuge Definition

vûrmə-fyo͝oj
noun
A vermifuge drug.
Webster's New World
A medicine that expels intestinal worms.
American Heritage Medicine
Synonyms:
adjective
Serving to expel worms and other parasites from the intestinal tract.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Vermifuge

Noun

Singular:
vermifuge
Plural:
vermifuges

Origin of Vermifuge

  • c 1720, vermi- +"Ž -fuge, from Latin vermis (“worm") + fugere (“to cause to flee")

    From Wiktionary

Vermifuge Sentence Examples

  • The vermifuge is given in the early morning, and should consist of the liquid extract of felix mas, male fern, one drachm in emulsion or in capsules to be followed in half an hour by a calomel purgative.

  • In the treatment of a case where the parasite is already present, for two days previous to the employment of a vermifuge a light diet should be given and the bowels moved by a purgative.

  • At one time they were supposed to be useful as a vermifuge.

  • The rue and wormwood are in general use as domestic medicines - the former for rheumatism and neuralgia; the latter in fever, debility and dyspepsia, as well as for a vermifuge.

  • The powdered bark is sometimes given to horses as a vermifuge; it possesses likewise tonic and febrifugal properties, containing a considerable amount of salicin.

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