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vermifuge (dict)
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VermifugeA vermifuge is a substance used for "worming", or expelling intestinal "worms", or, rather, macroinvertebrate parasites of the intestines. These include, for instance, tapeworms and roundworms. One of the most important vermifuges in pre-modern human medicine was the male fern, Dryopteris filix-mas.
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