Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to worms, especially parasitic worms.
- adj. Tending to expel worms; anthelmintic.
- n. An agent that expels or destroys parasitic worms; an anthelmintic.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In zoology, pertaining to helminths or worms.
- In medicine, expelling worms; vermifugal.
- n. A medicine for expelling worms; a vermifuge.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to worms; used especially of parasitic worms.
- adj. medicine Causing the expulsion of intestinal worms.
- n. medicine Any medicine that expels intestinal worms.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or relating to worms, or Helminthes; expelling worms.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms
- n. a medication capable of causing the evacuation of parasitic intestinal worms
Examples
“This type of treatment is known as helminthic treatment, or more specifically TSO, from the Latin name for whipworm eggs: Trichuris Suis Ova.”
The Wall Street Journal: In a Squeaky-Clean World, a Worm Might Help Fight Disease
“If these trials prove successful, treatment with parasitic worms—known as helminthic therapy—could provide a simple, cheap, natural and controllable treatment for the debilitating condition, which affects 2.5 million people world-wide.”
The Wall Street Journal: Parasitic Worms May Offer Hope on MS
“helminthic" therapy to avoid surgical removal of his entire colon.”
“She hasn't taken part in a helminthic therapy trial but says she would have no problem doing so.”
The Wall Street Journal: Parasitic Worms May Offer Hope on MS
“He says helminthic therapy is "potentially useful.”
The Wall Street Journal: Parasitic Worms May Offer Hope on MS
“Interest in helminthic therapy surged in 2007 with the publication of a study in Argentina by physicians Jorge Correale and Mauricio Farez.”
The Wall Street Journal: Parasitic Worms May Offer Hope on MS
“The site even comes with its own 'hot or not' feature which allows students to rate the slides at the moment the most popular is a slide of the intestinal helminthic infection Trichuris trichiura - as if you hadn't guessed.”
“Because it isn't just allergies it is all the modern diseases that involve inflammation or immune dysregulation that are potential targets for helminthic therapy.”
“Word about the study soon appeared online among chronic allergy sufferers, and a Yahoo group on “helminthic therapy” sprung up.”
“There is no obvious reason why helminthic and perhaps some other pre-existing infections will not similarly compromise the efficacy of certain types of HIV vaccines.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘helminthic’.
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Fancifully antiquated words
From Chambers's Etymology Dictionary, published in 1896
brackish, breviary, decrepitude, defalcate, deglutition, hebraic, heelpiece, helminthic, auld, helotry, hematine, hejira and 27 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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Words kirby1024 has recorded pronounc...
The list of words that kirby1024 has gotten around to recording pronounciations for.
the, testosterone, estrogen, cache, memory, antimnemonic, politics, gynophagia, prophylactic, proletariat, beguile, Vegemite and 36 more...
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Animals
porcine, phocine, leporine, hircine, ursine, zoonic, volucrine, vermicular, taurine, strigine, soricine, ranine and 20 more...
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