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Deworming

Meaning in veterinary medicine, with examples

/diːˈwɜːmɪŋ/nounCore term

In veterinary medicine, deworming means: Giving an animal medicine to kill or remove internal worms such as roundworms, tapeworms and hookworms.

In Turkish: iç parazit uygulaması, parazit ilacı verme, kurt ilacı uygulaması

How it is used

In the UK people more often say worming, and the product is a wormer: Is he up to date with his worming? Vets plan deworming by age, lifestyle and risk; on farms they use faecal egg counts to slow down drug resistance.

Example sentences

  1. Puppies have frequent deworming treatments in their first months, because many are born with roundworms.

  2. We changed the sheep deworming plan after the faecal egg counts showed resistance.

Common collocations

  • deworming schedule
  • deworming treatment
  • routine deworming
  • deworming programme
  • parasiteAn organism that lives on or inside an animal and feeds from it, such as fleas, ticks and mites on the outside or worms and protozoa on the inside.
  • faecal sampleA small amount of an animal's droppings collected for laboratory tests, for example to look for worm eggs, bacteria or blood. US spelling: fecal.
  • fleaA small, wingless, jumping insect that lives on the skin of cats, dogs and other animals and feeds on their blood.
  • tickA small, eight-legged parasite related to spiders that attaches to the skin and feeds on blood. Ticks can spread diseases such as Lyme disease and babesiosis.

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