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Prophylactic Proh Fuh Lak Tik Prof Uh Adjective Protecting Preventing Disease Protective

Prophylactic is an adjective meaning preventive or protective against disease, and a noun for a device like a condom.

Prophylactic (proh-fuh-LAK-tik, prof-uh) is an adjective meaning protecting or preventing disease, and a noun for a preventative drug or device, like a condom.

Front prophylactic \proh-fuh-LAK-tik, prof-uh-\
Back adjective
1. Protecting from or preventing disease.
2. Protective or preventive.

noun
3. A prophylactic drug or device, esp a condom.

[C16: via French from Greek prophulaktikos, from prophulassein to guard by taking advance measures, from pro-² + phulax a guard]

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