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    preventive
    /prɪˈvɛntɪv/

    adjective

    noun

    • 1. a medicine or other treatment designed to prevent disease or ill health: "quinine was used as a malaria preventive" Similar prophylacticprophylactic deviceprophylactic medicinepreventative

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