Synonyms for "prophylaxis" (43 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (9)

active treatmentadjuvant treatmentantigen treatmentcausal treatmentconservative treatmentcross-firingdiathermic treatmentdietetic treatmentdrip treatment

Strong matches (13)

drug treatmentempiric treatmentepidemiologyexpectant treatmentfever treatmenthealth physicsheat treatmenthot-air treatmenthygienehygienicslight treatmentmental hygienepalliative treatment

Related words (21)

perennial treatmentpreseasonal treatmentpreventive dentistrypreventive medicinepreventive treatmentprophylactic psychologyprophylactodontiaprophylaxypublic healthradiotherapeutic treatmentrational treatmentsanitationshock treatmentspecific treatmentstarvation treatmentsupporting treatmentsurgical treatmentsymptomatic treatmenttonic treatmentvibration treatment

Noun(1 words)

preventive healthcare

Related word relations

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7 relation types

More general

2 entries

barprevention

capable of

1 entries

fight disease

derived

16 entries

chemoprophylaxisfluoroprophylaxishomeoprophylaxisimmunoprophylaxismetaprophylaxismonoprophylaxispharmacoprophylaxispost-exposure prophylaxispre-exposure prophylaxisprophoprophylacticprophylaxedpsychoprophylaxisseroprophylaxisthromboprophylaxiszooprophylaxis

derived from

3 entries

prophylacticprophylacticalprophylactically

has context

2 entries

chessmedicine

is a

1 entries

prevention

related to

5 entries

diseasefrustratepreventionprotectivetreatment

Translations

30 translations across 24 languages.

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Arabic

1 entries

• وِقَايَة noun (prevention of, or protective treatment for disease)

Armenian

2 entries

• կանխարգելում noun (prevention of, or protective treatment for disease)
• պրոֆիլակտիկա noun (prevention of, or protective treatment for disease)

Belarusian

1 entries

• прафіла́ктыка noun (prevention of, or protective treatment for disease)

Bulgarian

1 entries

• профилактика noun (prevention of, or protective treatment for disease)

Catalan

1 entries

• profilaxi noun (prevention of, or protective treatment for disease)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

• 預防 /预防 noun (prevention of, or protective treatment for disease)

Estonian

1 entries

• profülaktika noun (prevention of, or protective treatment for disease)

Finnish

2 entries

• ehkäisy noun (prevention of, or protective treatment for disease)
• ehkäisyhoito noun (prevention of, or protective treatment for disease)

French

1 entries

• prophylaxie noun (prevention of, or protective treatment for disease)

German

2 entries

• Prophylaxe noun (prevention of, or protective treatment for disease)
• Vorbeugung noun (prevention of, or protective treatment for disease)

Hungarian

4 entries

• kórmegelőzés noun (prevention of, or protective treatment for disease)
• megelőzés noun (prevention of, or protective treatment for disease)
• megelőző kezelés noun (prevention of, or protective treatment for disease)
• profilaxis noun (prevention of, or protective treatment for disease)

Irish

1 entries

• urchoscacht noun (prevention of, or protective treatment for disease)

Italian

1 entries

• profilassi noun (prevention of, or protective treatment for disease)

Japanese

1 entries

• 予防 noun (prevention of, or protective treatment for disease)

Kazakh

1 entries

• алдын алу noun (prevention of, or protective treatment for disease)

Polish

1 entries

• profilaktyka noun (prevention of, or protective treatment for disease)

Portuguese

1 entries

• profilaxia noun (prevention of, or protective treatment for disease)

Russian

1 entries

• профила́ктика noun (prevention of, or protective treatment for disease)

Sicilian

1 entries

• prufilassi noun (prevention of, or protective treatment for disease)

Spanish

1 entries

• profilaxis noun (prevention of, or protective treatment for disease)

Swedish

1 entries

• profylax noun (prevention of, or protective treatment for disease)

Ukrainian

1 entries

• профіла́ктика noun (prevention of, or protective treatment for disease)

Walloon

1 entries

• espaitchance noun (prevention of, or protective treatment for disease)

Welsh

1 entries

• proffylacsis noun (prevention of, or protective treatment for disease)

Sample sentences

1 total sentences available.

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