| antimalarial | 1. Preventing or curing malaria. 2. A chemotherapeutic agent that inhibits or destroys malarial parasites. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| antimalarials | Agents used in the treatment of malaria. They are usually classified on the basis of their action against plasmodia at different stages in their life cycle in the human. (12 Dec 1998) |