ivermectin

English

Etymology

From di- +‎ avermectin.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌʌɪ.vəˈmɛk.tɪn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌaɪ.vɚˈmɛk.tɪn/

Noun

ivermectin (countable and uncountable, plural ivermectins)

1. (medicine, pharmacology) A compound of the avermectin group, used as an anthelmintic in veterinary medicine and as a treatment for river blindness.

   Synonyms: (descriptive, during the COVID-19 pandemic) horse dewormer, (descriptive, during the COVID-19 pandemic) horse paste

   • 2021 August 30, Emma Goldberg, “Demand Surges for Deworming Drug for Covid, Despite Scant Evidence It Works”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Dr. Yu has refused the ivermectin requests, he said, but he knows some of his colleagues have not.

   • 2024 December 11, John Timmer, “New congressional report: “COVID-19 most likely emerged from a laboratory””, in Ars Technica‎^[2]:

     Perhaps the most egregious example of shifting the standards of evidence comes when the report discusses the off-label use of drugs such as chloroquine and ivermectin.

Derived terms

• Pfizermectin

 

Related terms

• avermectin

 

Translations

compound

• Finnish: ivermektiini

References

• “ivermectin”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “ivermectin”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.