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US
/pɹiˈvɛnɪv, pɹiˈvɛntɪv, pɹɪˈvɛnɪv, pɹɪˈvɛntɪv/
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[ UK /pɹɪvˈɛntɪv/ ]
[ UK /pɹɪvˈɛntɪv/ ]
NOUN
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remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease
the doctor recommended several preventatives - any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
- an agent or device intended to prevent conception
ADJECTIVE
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preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease
a prophylactic drug
vaccines are prophylactic
preventive medicine - tending to prevent or hinder
How To Use preventive In A Sentence
- The effect of preventive measures on the incidence of ankle sprains.
- In this sense cognitive therapy might sometimes serve a preventive function.
- With a little planning and preventive measures, you can avoid the common sun and surf damage of faded colour, fragile, brittle or dry hair and yucky split ends.
- Malar J 6: 88. van Eijk AM, Ayisi JG, ter Kuile FO, Otieno JA, Misore AO, et al. (2004) Effectiveness of intermittent preventive treatment with sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine for control of malaria in pregnancy in western Kenya: a hospital-based study. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- The reason to do it now is preventive to try and avoid a toothless old age for her.
- Objective To study the preventive effect of honey milk tea on stress gastric ulcer, and to confirm the value of honey milk tea used as an alimentotherapy.
- The great plague is club or anbury, for which there is no direct remedy or preventive known. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition
- Your passbook is checked at the reception desk every time you come; if you're behind schedule for a shot, you go to the Preventive Medicine door and the nurse gives it to you, then and there. A Response To The Documentary Sicko
- Having said this, however, we have noted earlier the difficulties inherent in trying to mount preventive strategies.
- The product works as either a preventive or curative control for fire ants, mole crickets, sod webworms, cutworms, armyworms and chinch bugs.