Usually means: Antimalarial drug, inhibits folic acid.
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  3. pyrimethamine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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Definitions from Wiktionary (pyrimethamine)

noun:  (pharmacology) A synthetic compound derived from pyrimidine, acting as a folic acid antagonist and used in the chemoprophylaxis or treatment of malaria and in the treatment of toxoplasmosis.

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