- preventative medicine
- 预防医学
Medical Chinese dictionary (湘雅医学词典). 2013.
preventative medicine
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preventative — pre·ven·ta·tive pri vent ət iv adj or n PREVENTIVE … Medical dictionary
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preventative — preventive, preventative Both words are in use as adjectives meaning ‘serving to prevent’, especially in medicine, and also as nouns denoting a substance or procedure that does this. Preventive is the commoner by a long way (with four times as… … Modern English usage
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Mastectomy, preventative — Removal of one or both breasts without the current presence of cancer. This surgery is sometimes chosen as a preventative measure by women who have a strong history of familial breast cancer … Medical dictionary
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preventative — adj. Preventative is used with these nouns: ↑action, ↑maintenance, ↑measure, ↑medicine, ↑war … Collocations dictionary
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