antimalarial (redirected from Antimalarials)

an·ti·ma·lar·i·al  (nt-m-lâr-l, nt-)

adj.

Preventing or relieving the symptoms of malaria.

n.

A drug used to treat malaria.

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antimalarial [ˌæntɪməˈlɛərɪəl]

adj

(Medicine) effective in the treatment of malaria

n

(Medicine / Pharmacology) an antimalarial drug or agent

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

antimalarial - a medicinal drug used to prevent or treat malaria antimalarial drug antiprotozoal, antiprotozoal drug - a medicinal drug used to fight diseases (like malaria) that are caused by protozoa chloroquine - an antimalarial drug used to treat malaria and amebic dysentery and systemic lupus erythematosus Larium, mefloquine, mefloquine hydrochloride, Mephaquine - an antimalarial drug (trade name Larium and Mephaquine) that is effective in cases that do not respond to chloroquine; said to produce harmful neuropsychiatric effects on some people primaquine - synthetic antimalarial drug Atabrine, mepacrine, quinacrine, quinacrine hydrochloride - 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; used in malaria therapy

Translations

antimalarial [ˌæntɪməˈlɛərɪəl] ADJ → antipalúdico