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Prophylactic   /prˌɑfɪlˈæktɪk/  /prˌoʊfɪlˈæktɪk/   Listen
Prophylactic

adjective
1.
Capable of preventing conception or impregnation.  Synonyms: antifertility, contraceptive.
2.
Warding off.  Synonym: cautionary.
3.
Preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease.  Synonyms: preventative, preventive.  "Vaccines are prophylactic" , "A prophylactic drug"



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"Prophylactic" Quotes from Famous Books



... my fundamental organic vigor and had retrained my dietary habits. About 1983 Isabelle and I also began using Life Extension megavitamins as a therapy against the aging process. Feeling so much better I began to find the incredibly boring weeks of prophylactic fasting too difficult to motivate myself to do, and I stopped. Since that time I fast only when acutely ill. Generally less than one week on water handles any non-optimum health condition I've had since '84. I am only 54 years old as I write these words, so I hope ...
— How and When to Be Your Own Doctor • Dr. Isabelle A. Moser with Steve Solomon

... parental despots are compelled by the multitude of their subjects to resort to political rather than personal rule, and to spread their attempts at moral monster-making over so many children, that each child has enough freedom, and enough sport in the prophylactic process of laughing at its elders behind their backs, to escape with much less damage than the single child. In a large school the system may be bad; but the personal influence of the head master has to be ...
— A Treatise on Parents and Children • George Bernard Shaw



Words linked to "Prophylactic" :   protective, contraceptive device, therapeutic, healthful, curative, remedy, birth control device, cure, prophylaxis, cautionary



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