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preventive

/pri-ven-tiv/US // prɪˈvɛn tɪv //UK // (prɪˈvɛntɪv) //

预防性,预防性的,预防措施,预防性措施

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Medicine/Medical. of or noting a drug, vaccine, etc., for preventing disease; prophylactic.
    • : serving to prevent or hinder: preventive measures.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Medicine/Medical. a drug or other substance for preventing disease.
    • : a preventive agent or measure.

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Examples

  • The study is another troubling indicator of the preventive medical care that children as well as adults in the United States haven’t received since the start of the pandemic.

  • As you grow older, some preventive medical tests can actually be skipped

  • Some boast style features but aren’t equipped with preventive damage options.

  • In the meantime, it will be important to continue standard preventive measures, including social distancing, wearing face masks, washing hands and following other official guidance.

  • Being consistent with both treatment and preventive measures is key, she says.

  • Yet here we are in 2014, still arguing over our right to have access to this important preventive care.

  • Migraine drugs fall into two categories: preventive and abortive.

  • Now, preventive protocols—like mammograms, colonoscopies, and Prostate-Specific Antigen tests—are being questioned.

  • There have been studies that demonstrated a clear preventive benefit for circumcised males.

  • Something like reducing obesity can be best done through preventive care that kicks in well before a person has a BMI in the 40s.

  • Thus if a man threatened to fill up your well because it stood, as he claimed, on his land, you had no preventive remedy at law.

  • It is usual to have recourse to this valuable invention only when disease is actually existing—as a preventive, it is neglected.

  • For instance, the decrease may have been due to extra preventive work done by welfare officers.

  • As to the use of antitoxin as a preventive and cure for diphtheria, too much praise cannot be given to that wonderful discovery.

  • Or, a better preventive is a canvass or leather cap to protect the neck entirely from the storm.