preventive
/prɪˈvɛntɪv
/adjective
Designed to keep something undesirable such as illness or harm from occurring: preventive medicine...
- There are some important preventive measures that can be done to avoid a recurrent stroke.
- The effect of preventive measures on the incidence of ankle sprains.
- Wider community education is required as a primary preventive measure.
Synonyms
inhibitory, deterrent, pre-emptive, obstructive;
precautionary, protective
prophylactic, disease-preventing, precautionary, protective
noun
A medicine or other treatment designed to prevent disease or ill health: quinine was used as a malaria preventive...
- But don't expect that to stop drug companies from hyping their cholesterol lowering products as preventives for breast cancer.
- Silicone greases are probably not effective preventives.
- Eating garlic and plenty of vitamin C are useful anti-viral preventives.
Synonyms
prophylactic, prophylactic device, prophylactic medicine, preventive drug
Derivatives
preventively
- And the idea behind integrative medicine is to use these things preventively, to try and prevent illness.
- Patients could carry PKC inhibitors and take them preventively, as soon as they sense a manic episode coming on.
- These antiviral drugs fight the herpes virus that causes cold sores and can speed healing or be used preventively to thwart outbreaks.
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