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A medicine or substance that expels worms from animal bodies; an anthelmintic.

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  • WORMSEED
    Any one of several plants, as Artemisia santonica, and Chenopodium anthelminticum, whose seeds have the property of expelling worms from the stomach and intestines. Wormseed mustard, a slender, cruciferous plant having small lanceolate leaves.
  • ANIMALIZATION
    1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
  • ANIMALCULISM
    The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
  • SUBSTANCE
    See 2 (more info) 1. That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real,
  • ANIMALITY
    Animal existence or nature. Locke.
  • ANIMALLY
    Physically. G. Eliot.
  • ANIMALNESS
    Animality.
  • ANIMALCULIST
    1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism.
  • ANIMAL
    1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process
  • ANIMALCULE
    An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria. Note: Many of the so-called animalcules have been shown to be plants, having locomotive powers something like those of animals. Among these are Volvox, the Desmidiacæ, and the
  • ANIMALCULAR; ANIMALCULINE
    Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules. "Animalcular life." Tyndall.
  • ANIMALISH
    Like an animal.
  • ANIMALISM
    The state, activity, or enjoyment of animals; mere animal life without intellectual or moral qualities; sensuality.
  • SUBSTANCELESS
    Having no substance; unsubstantial. Coleridge.
  • MEDICINE
    A physician. Shak. Medicine bag, a charm; -- so called among the North American Indians, or in works relating to them. -- Medicine man , a person who professes to cure sickness, drive away evil spirits, and regulate the weather by the arts of
  • ANIMALCULUM
    An animalcule. Note: Animalculæ, as if from a Latin singular animalcula, is a barbarism.
  • ANTHELMINTIC
    Good against intestinal worms. -- An anthelmintic remedy.
  • ANIMALIZE
    1. To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form. Warburton. 2. To convert into animal matter by the processes of assimilation. 3. To render animal or sentient; to reduce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize. The
  • SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
    The substance of the medullary sheath.
  • BELL ANIMALCULE
    An infusorian of the family Vorticellidæ, common in fresh-water ponds.
  • SUGGESTIVE MEDICINE
    Treatment by commands or positive statements addressed to a more or less hypnotized patient.
  • VEGETO-ANIMAL
    Partaking of the nature both of vegetable and animal matter; -- a term sometimes applied to vegetable albumen and gluten, from their resemblance to similar animal products.

 

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