prophylactically

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• Because the erythematous area could have become an infection, the patients were treated prophylactically with oral or topical antibiotic medication, with resolution of the symptoms within 3 days for all 14 instances of erythema.

  Academic text (2001)

• Furthermore, bilateral mastectomy is often performed prophylactically to reduce the risk of breast cancer and ovarian cancer in patients at high genetic risk (4-7).

  Academic text (2015)

• Way too many people are put on this stuff prophylactically.

  Blog text (32)

• Probably not if you're taking it prophylactically or to prevent a heart "event."

  Blog text (25)

• But just in case, I'll put you on some penicillin prophylactically.

  Fiction book (1995)

• First, should we wait until the patient develops PONV, or do we treat patients prophylactically?

  Academic text (2003)

• However, none of the four small randomized trials that have used dopamine prophylactically showed any benefit.

  Academic text (2000)

• (This is why many doctors have recommended taking acetaminophen prophylactically to prevent fever, but it's not clear that it actually helps.)

  Blog text (5)

• Antiviral drugs are believed to reduce disease severity and duration of infectiousness in individual patients, if taken sufficiently early (9), and to protect contacts of infected persons, if taken prophylactically (13-15).

  Academic text (2015)

• Doctors recommend that you take the vaccine prophylactically to avoid illness.

Synonyms

P

preventively

vsprophylactically

1 3.9

In a way that stops something before it happens

is used specifically to prevent disease or medical problems beforehand

Antonyms

R

reactively

1 5.3

In a way that responds to events after they happen instead of before

How Preventive

prophylactically

• Specialized

1 7.9

proactively

13 4.4

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Etymology