A substance or medicine that kills amoebas; a drug used to treat amoebic infections.
From ameba (Greek amoibē 'change') + -cide (from Latin caedere 'to kill'). Medical terminology combines organism names with -cide to name killing agents.
Amebicides are among the oldest antimicrobial drugs—some have been used for over a century, and the quest to kill parasites while keeping the patient alive is one of medicine's great ongoing battles.
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