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Good against intestinal worms. -- An anthelmintic remedy. [Written also anthelminthic.]

Anthelmintic.

id substance, C8H13O2N, the chief alkaloid of the betel nut, to which the latter owes its anthelmintic action.

aves. It has an offensive smell and acrid taste, and is a powerful emetic, cathartic, and anthelmintic.

A vermifuge; an anthelmintic.

An Abyssinian rosaceous tree (Brayera anthelmintica), the flowers of which are used as a vermifuge. [Written also cusso and kosso.]

-- Male fern (Bot.), a fern of the genus Aspidium (A. Filixmas), used in medicine as an anthelmintic, esp. against the tapeworm. Aspidium marginale in America, and A. athamanticum in South Africa, are used as good substitutes for the male fern in medical practice. See Female fern, under Female. -- Male rhyme, a rhym…

as Pride of India, Pride of China, or bead tree. Various parts of the tree are considered anthelmintic. The margosa oil . . . is a most valuable balsam for wounds, having a peculiar smell which prevents the attacks of flies. Sir S. Baker.

ubstance having a bitter taste, extracted from the buds of levant wormseed and used as an anthelmintic. It occassions a peculiar temporary color blindness, causing objects to appear as if seen through a yellow glass.

Tending to prevent, destroy, or expel, worms or vermin; anthelmintic.

A medicine or substance that expels worms from animal bodies; an anthelmintic.

Any one of several plants, as Artemisia santonica, and Chenopodium anthelminticum, whose seeds have the property of expelling worms from the stomach and intestines. Wormseed mustard, a slender, cruciferous plant (Erysinum cheiranthoides) having small lanceolate leaves.