Relating to or describing drugs, treatments, or strategies used to prevent or cure malaria.
From 'anti-' + 'malarial' (the adjectival form of malaria). Became standard medical terminology in the late 19th century as cinchona alkaloids and later synthetic drugs emerged.
Antimalarial drugs like quinine and chloroquine fundamentally shaped global history—they enabled European colonization of African and Asian tropics, meaning this word describes one of history's most consequential medicines, for better and worse.
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