Sentence examples for are prophylactic from inspiring English sources
noun
A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive. A prophylactic condom.
Moreover, most widely documented usages of silver are prophylactic treatment of burns and water disinfection.
These vaccines are prophylactic.
Insect repellents are prophylactic tools against all these maladies.
Because both vaccines are prophylactic, they are ideally used prior to sexual debut.
Insect repellents are prophylactic tools against a number of vector-borne diseases.
Selective digestive tract decontamination (SDD) and selective oropharyngeal decontamination (SOD) are prophylactic antibiotics used as infection prevention strategy in intensive care units (ICU).
Clichés are prophylactics against the complexity and intensity of direct experience, tools used to distance ourselves from reality, but this photograph brings love near enough that we can feel its hot breath.
This undertaking was prophylactic.
Start of cholesterol feeding was prophylactic, two weeks before immunization.
In geopolitics, as in life, the best medicine is prophylactic.
Our results suggest that boosting NAD+ can be prophylactic or therapeutic in HCC.
