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ivermectins

ivermectins is the plural of ivermectin.

Meaning of ivermectin

Noun

ivermectin (countable and uncountable, plural ivermectins)

  1. A compound of the avermectin group, used as an anthelmintic in veterinary medicine and as a treatment for river blindness.
    • Dr. Yu has refused the ivermectin requests, he said, but he knows some of his colleagues have not.2021 August 30, Emma Goldberg, “Demand Surges for Deworming Drug for Covid, Despite Scant Evidence It Works”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2021
    Synonyms:
    horse dewormer, horse paste

Questions about ivermectins

What is ivermectins the plural of?
Ivermectins is the plural of ivermectin.

Words near ivermectins in the dictionary

  1. iver
  2. Iver Heath
  3. Iveria
  4. Iverian
  5. ivermectin
  6. ivermectins
  7. Ivernia
  8. Ivernian
  9. Ivernic
  10. Iverson
  11. Iverson bracket

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