Meaning | A medicinal drug used to prevent or treat malaria. |
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Synonym | antimalarial drug |
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Narrower | chloroquine | An antimalarial drug used to treat malaria and amebic dysentery and systemic lupus erythematosus |
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mefloquine, mefloquine hydrochloride, Larium, Mephaquine | An antimalarial drug (trade name Larium and Mephaquine) that is effective in cases that do not respond to chloroquine |
primaquine | synthetic antimalarial drug |
quinacrine, quinacrine hydrochloride, mepacrine, Atabrine | 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 |
Broader | antiprotozoal, antiprotozoal drug | A medicinal drug used to fight diseases (like malaria) that are caused by protozoa |
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Spanish | antipalúdico |
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Catalan | antipalúdic |
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