An antiplatyhelmintic agent is a type of
anthelmintic designed to reduce
flatworm
The flatworms, flat worms, Platyhelminthes, or platyhelminths (from the Greek πλατύ, ''platy'', meaning "flat" and ἕλμινς (root: ἑλμινθ-), ''helminth-'', meaning "worm") are a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegment ...
infection.
References
Anthelmintics
Platyhelminth biology
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