preventive
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- noun
- /prɪˈvɛntɪv/
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medida preventiva
- Vaccines are important preventives that help protect children from various diseases.
- preventive services
Examples
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Owners should also pick up heartworm and flea-and-tick preventives to keep pets healthy between visits.
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Nationally, two sets of evidence-based prevention services have been identified: clinical preventive services, such as mammography, immunizations, and smoking cessation; and community preventive services, such as fluoridation, lead testing, and community screening.
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The benefit in preventive programs often comes in the distant future.
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Certainly, managed care creates new incentives to keep patients healthy through clinical preventive services.
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And you see that a lot of the focus is on preventive measures and that's great.
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And there are preventive strategies for cardiovascular disease.
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Where they did take preventive measures, sometimes schools were closed, churches and vaudeville shows and theaters as well.
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The doctor recommended using hand sanitizer as a preventive measure against the flu.
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Regular exercise can serve as a preventive strategy to reduce the risk of heart disease.
Synonyms
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Actions people take to stop disease before it starts
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A medicine or treatment that prevents an illness before it starts
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A medicine to stop disease or slow its progress
A medicine taken regularly to reduce asthma symptoms
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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Health care that stops people from getting sick before a disease starts
- Formal
A military action to stop an expected attack by an enemy before it happens
How Preventive
Surface Forms
Morphology
preventive = preventive (transparent) = prevent + ive
The noun is built on the transparent adjective 'preventive', which directly expresses the idea of preventing something undesirable.
Etymology
Preventive comes from the Latin parts prae- 'before' and venire 'to come', with the ven- part like in event or venture. A preventive is something that 'comes before' a problem to stop it.