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pro·phy·lac·tic
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alexipharmic
acting as an antidote -
cream
Cream is a thick yellowish-white liquid taken from milk. You can use it in cooking or put it on fruit or desserts. -
disopyramide
a substance, C 21 H 29 N 3 O, used in its phosphate form in the symptomatic and prophylactic treatment of certain cardiac arrhythmias. -
preventive
Medicine/Medical. of or noting a drug, vaccine, etc., for preventing disease; prophylactic. -
prophylaxis
Medicine/Medical. the preventing of disease. the prevention of a specific disease, as by studying the biological behavior, transmission, etc., of its causative agent and applying a series of measures against it. -
pyrimethamine
a potent substance, C 1 2 H 1 3 ClN 4 , used against susceptible plasmodia in the prophylactic treatment of malaria and against Toxoplasma gondi in the treatment of toxoplasmosis.