英语词汇“prophylaxis”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Prophylaxis refers to all the things people do to prevent disease. Prophylaxis is part of medicine.

If you've ever heard of someone using prophylactics to prevent a disease — often a sexually transmitted disease — then you have a clue to the meaning of prophylaxis, which refers to the prevention of disease. Anything you do to stay healthy and keep illness at bay would be categorized as prophylaxis. Antibiotic prophylaxis refers to giving patients antibiotics to prevent a bacterial infection, instead of curing an infection that already exists.

WORD FAMILY

prophylaxis: prophylactic+/prophylactic: prophylactically, prophylactics

USAGE EXAMPLES

PrEP, shorthand for pre-exposure prophylaxis, changes the dynamics of HIV prevention, they say.

Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016)

Using the pump in this manner would fit a prevention strategy called pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP.

Wall Street Journal(Dec 29, 2016)

I felt a rude but genuine certainty that recording major incidents of this nature would work as a type of personal prophylaxis.

The New Yorker(Dec 05, 2016)

n the prevention of disease

Hyper

bar, prevention

the act of preventing

单词	prophylaxis
释义	prophylaxis (once / 13696 pages) n Prophylaxis refers to all the things people do to prevent disease. Prophylaxis is part of medicine. If you've ever heard of someone using prophylactics to prevent a disease — often a sexually transmitted disease — then you have a clue to the meaning of prophylaxis, which refers to the prevention of disease. Anything you do to stay healthy and keep illness at bay would be categorized as prophylaxis. Antibiotic prophylaxis refers to giving patients antibiotics to prevent a bacterial infection, instead of curing an infection that already exists. WORD FAMILY prophylaxis: prophylactic+/prophylactic: prophylactically, prophylactics USAGE EXAMPLES PrEP, shorthand for pre-exposure prophylaxis, changes the dynamics of HIV prevention, they say. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) Using the pump in this manner would fit a prevention strategy called pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP. Wall Street Journal(Dec 29, 2016) I felt a rude but genuine certainty that recording major incidents of this nature would work as a type of personal prophylaxis. The New Yorker(Dec 05, 2016) n the prevention of disease Hyper bar, prevention the act of preventing
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