antimalarial drug

Other forms: antimalarial drugs

Definitions of antimalarial drug

1. noun

   a medicinal drug used to prevent or treat malaria
   synonyms: antimalarial

   types:

   chloroquine

   an antimalarial drug used to treat malaria and amebic dysentery and systemic lupus erythematosus

   Larium, Mephaquine, mefloquine, mefloquine hydrochloride

   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 cinchona bark; used in malaria therapy

   type of:

   antiprotozoal, antiprotozoal drug

   a medicinal drug used to fight diseases (like malaria) that are caused by protozoa