| NOUN | artifact | antimalarial drug, antimalarial | a medicinal drug used to prevent or treat malaria |
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| Meaning | A medicinal drug used to prevent or treat malaria. | |
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| Synonym | antimalarial | |
| Narrower | chloroquine | An antimalarial drug used to treat malaria and amebic dysentery and systemic lupus erythematosus |
| 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 |
| Spanish | antipalúdico | |
| Catalan | antipalúdic | |
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