Acting against or preventing worm-like movements or the presence of worms in the body.
From Latin 'anti-' (against) combined with 'vermicular' (from Latin 'vermiculus,' meaning small worm). The term emerged in medical contexts to describe substances that combat parasitic worms.
This word reveals how medical vocabulary stacks prefixes like building blocks—doctors can quickly describe what a medicine does by adding 'anti-' to existing terms, which is why you'll find dozens of 'anti-' medical words even if you've never heard them before.
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