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preventive
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Adjective
  • tending to prevent or hinder
  • preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease
    • preventive medicine
    • vaccines are prophylactic
    • a prophylactic drug
Noun
  • an agent or device intended to prevent conception
  • any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
  • remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease
    • the doctor recommended several preventatives
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