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Definition of Prophylaxis
1. Noun. The prevention of disease.
Definition of Prophylaxis
1. n. The art of preserving from, or of preventing, disease; the observance of the rules necessary for the preservation of health; preservative or preventive treatment.
Definition of Prophylaxis
1. Noun. (medicine) Prevention of, or protective treatment for disease. ¹
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Definition of Prophylaxis
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Prophylaxis
Literary usage of Prophylaxis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvey Lectures by Harvey Society of New York, New York Academy of Medicine (1912)
"In the ten or twelve years which have followed these discoveries, the advances
in our knowledge of the aetiology, prophylaxis, and treatment of various ..."
2. Preventive medicine and hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau (1917)
"prophylaxis.—prophylaxis is practically the same as for all other infections ...
The disease may frequently be avoided by individual prophylaxis. ..."
3. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1916)
"prophylaxis.—prophylaxis is practically the same as for all other infections ...
The disease may frequently be avoided by individual prophylaxis. ..."
4. The Endemic Diseases of the Southern States by William Heiskell Deaderick, Loyd Oscar Thompson (1916)
"CHAPTER XV prophylaxis OF BLACKWATER FEVER A. Plehn has shown that ... In 1897-99
among the officers of Cameroon who used no prophylaxis there occurred in ..."
5. Journal of Social Hygiene by American Social Hygiene Association (1919)
"... A. WOODS The Illinois Social Hygiene League, formerly the Red League ROBERT H.
GAUI.T The Case Against prophylaxis EDITH ..."
6. A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use by Austin Flint (1873)
"It constitutes a division of medicine called prophylaxis. ... Much has been
accomplished in behalf of prophylaxis by these measures, but much more remains ..."
7. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"The prophylaxis of Tetanus.—A valuable summary of the literature on the prophylaxis
of tetanus has been written by AT ..."
8. International Clinics: A Quarterly of Clinical Lectures by Henry W. Cattell (1902)
"... our treatment of the condition is not satisfactory, as a rule, our knowledge
of its etiology is far from complete, and our ideas as to its prophylaxis ..."
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