Meaning & use
Vermifuge
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A medicine or substance that expels parasitic worms from the intestines.
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The veterinarian prescribed a vermifuge to clear the puppy's intestinal worms.
Traditional healers once used bitter herbal vermifuges to treat children with parasites.
A note on using this word
From Latin vermis (worm) and fugare (to drive away); the modern clinical term is anthelmintic.
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anthelminticdewormer
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