praziquantel

Meaning

Noun

• An anthelmintic medication used to treat a number of types of parasitic worm infections, including clonorchiasis, cysticercosis, opisthorchiasis, schistosomiasis, and tapeworm infections.

Origin

• . The drug was developed by the German pharmaceutical companies Bayer and Merck in the mid-1970s. The name is established as the drug’s international nonproprietary name, and follows the -antel suffix pattern for the general anthelmintics category of pharmaceutical products.