different between vermifuge vs taenicide

English

Etymology

Attested since about 1720, vermi- +? -fuge, from Latin vermis (“worm”) + fugere (“to cause to flee”).

Adjective

vermifuge (comparative more vermifuge, superlative most vermifuge)

1. (medicine, dated) Acting as a drug to cause expulsion or death of intestinal worms.

Synonyms

• anthelmintic.

Derived terms

• vermifugal

Noun

vermifuge (plural vermifuges)

1. (medicine, dated) A drug that causes the expulsion or death of intestinal worms, such as tapeworms.
   • 1867, Advertisement, The Prairie Farmer, Volume 20, New Series, page 264,

     We have been informed that the usual practice of Merchants, Farmers and Planters, in ordering their supplies of Dr. McLane's Celebrated VERMIFUGE, has been to simply write and order Vermifuge. The consequence is that instead of the genuine Dr. McLanes's Vermifuge, they very frequently get one or other of the many worthless preparations called Vermifuge now before the public.

Synonyms

• anthelmintic

French

Pronunciation

Adjective

vermifuge (plural vermifuges)

1. (medicine) vermifuge

Noun

vermifuge m (plural vermifuges)

1. (medicine) vermifuge

Related terms

• vermifuger

Further reading

• “vermifuge” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Alternative forms

• tænicide
• tenicide, teniacide

Etymology

Ancient Greek ?????? (tainía, “band,ribbon”) + -cida (“killer”), from caedere (“kill”); equivalent to +? -cide.

Noun

taenicide (plural taenicides)

1. A medicine that destroys tapeworms.
   • The Traditional Taenicides of Ethiopia, by Richard Pankhust, in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, XXIV(3):323-334, 1969:

     The practice in Ethiopia of eating raw meat...has given rise...to a high incidence of taenia, or tapeworm. ... The commonest traditional taenicide was the blood-red flower of the kosso tree...

   • Cocoanut as a Taenicide, in the Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume 59, 1890:

     If we are not mistaken, this is one of the popular Russian remedies...It is not necessary to take cathartics, simply eating a whole cocoanut being sufficient.

   • An in vivo screening method for anthelmintic activity using Hymenolepis nana var fraterna in mice, by J. Crowley, in Parasitology, 51:339-345 Cambridge University Press, 1961:

     Results obtained with known taenicides and taenifuges are tabled, analysed and compared with their action against the tapeworms of larger animals including man.

Related terms

• taenifuge
• taeniasis
• vermifuge
• anthelmintic

Anagrams

• teniacide