- Preventative Medicine(preventive)
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Medical Chinese dictionary (湘雅医学词典). 2013.
Preventative Medicine(preventive)
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preventive — , preventative One way to ease their difficulties, they decided, was to practice preventative medicine (Economist). Preventative is not incorrect, but preventive is shorter … Bryson’s dictionary for writers and editors
preventative — pre·ven·ta·tive pri vent ət iv adj or n PREVENTIVE … Medical dictionary
preventive, preventative — One way to ease their difficulties, they decided, was to practice preventative medicine (Economist). Preventative is not incorrect, but preventive is shorter … Dictionary of troublesome word
preventive, preventative — One way to ease their difficulties, they decided, was to practice preventative medicine (Economist). Preventative is not incorrect, but preventive is shorter … Dictionary of troublesome word
preventive medicine — The anticipation, communication, prediction, identification, prevention, education, risk assessment, and control of communicable diseases, illnesses and exposure to endemic, occupational, and environmental threats. These threats include nonbattle … Military dictionary
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
preventive — 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
preventive — /prəˈvɛntɪv / (say pruh ventiv) adjective 1. Also, preventative /prəˈvɛntətɪv/ (say pruh ventuhtiv). Medicine warding off disease. 2. Also, preventative /prəˈvɛntətɪv/ (say pruh ventuhtiv). serving to prevent or hinder. 3. of or relating to the… …
preventative, preventive — These words mean serving to hinder, keeping from occurring. The form preventive is preferable and is so much more widely used that two standard dictionaries no longer record preventative: The person arrested was placed in preventive detention.… … Dictionary of problem words and expressions
preventive — [[t]prɪve̱ntɪv[/t]] ADJ: usu ADJ n Preventive actions are intended to help prevent things such as disease or crime. Too much is spent on expensive curative medicine and too little on preventive medicine... People accused the ministry of failing… … English dictionary
medicine — noun 1 science of treating/preventing illness ADJECTIVE ▪ modern ▪ advances in modern medicine ▪ traditional ▪ qualified in traditional Chinese medicine ▪ folk … Collocations dictionary
