Crossword-Solution: PROPHYLACTIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Prophylactic | n. | A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive. |
| Prophylactic | a. | Alt. of Prophylactical |
We have 21 clues for the answer “PROPHYLACTIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| sterilisation | 1 answer |
| TENDING to prevent misfortune | 1 answer |
| TENDING to prevent disease | 1 answer |
| COURSE of action tending to prevent disease/misfortune | 1 answer |
| preventive medicine | 2 answers |
| Camphor ___. | 5 answers |
| Germicide | 5 answers |
| Lavender | 6 answers |
| Vaccination | 7 answers |
| preventative | 8 answers |
| hygiene | 24 answers |
| Pharmaceutical | 24 answers |
| Disinfectant. | 25 answers |
| medical | 38 answers |
| Immunisation | 39 answers |
| antiseptic | 43 answers |
| Healing __ | 44 answers |
| COURSE of action | 62 answers |
| Sequester | 65 answers |
| Guard | 67 answers |
| Segment | 68 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PROPHYLACTIC (5)
Pasteur discovered that the virulence of the virus of rabies could be attenuated in passing it through different species of animals, and also that inoculation of this attenuated virus had a decided prophylactic effect on the disease; hence, by cutting the spinal cord of inoculated animals into fragments a few centimeters long, and drying them, an emulsion could be made containing the virus.
His professional friends, to whom he mentioned his views as to the prophylactic virtues of cow-pox, laughed at him, and even threatened to expel him from their society, if he persisted in harassing them with the subject.
Malarial here? Steer us to a bar if there is such a thing, and let’s take a prophylactic.” Merriam, still half comatose, led them toward the Hotel Orilla del Mar.
Yet the voluntary control of the procreative powers, the rational regulation of the number of children we bring into the world--this is the one type of restriction frowned upon and prohibited by law! In a more definite, a much more realistic and concrete manner, Birth Control reveals itself as the most effective weapon in the spread of hygienic and prophylactic knowledge among women of the less fortunate classes.
Sometimes the stuff is thrown in syringes.] [Footnote 34: The Persian proverb is--“Bala e tavilah bar sat i maimun”: “The woes of the stable be on the monkey’s head!” In some Moslem countries a hog acts prophylactic.
Quotes with PROPHYLACTIC (3)
It's from the newspapers that people I know - relatives and co-workers - have got the idea that crosswords are a prophylactic against Alzheimer's. Newspapers are of course also the place where crosswords (and now sudokus) are most readily available, so the association is presumably good for circulation.
The portable animal statuettes were therefore far more than decorative trinkets: they were reified three-dimensional spirit animals with all their prophylactic and other powers.
But such is the nature of man that as soon as you begin to force him to do a thing, from that moment he begins to seek ways by which he can avoid doing the thing you are trying to force upon him. A man with malaria parasites in his blood is a danger to his companions. To kill all the parasites, he was then required to continue doses of quinine a week or ten days after his fever. When the convalescing men were given their daily dose of quinine they would manage to throw their …