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How to use prophylactic in a sentence

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Like a prophylactic, it prevents certain bad things from happening while preserving most of the benefits of interaction.
The efficacy of prophylactic antipyretics for all transfusions, although widely practiced, has yet to be established.
Mucositis should be managed with antiseptic mouthwash and prophylactic or early treatment of oral candidiasis.
Many approved official prophylactic packs in fact contained antiseptic ointment.
All patients routinely receive a prophylactic dose of intravenous antibiotics preoperatively.
In other words, there's very slight blockage and they want to take a preventative move, prophylactic heart surgery.
Hopefully, a successful strike will inspire other groups of workers to undertake similar prophylactic action.
If these measures are unsuccessful, prophylactic treatment may be needed to prevent migraines.
In surgical settings at high risk for emesis, a prophylactic perioperative antiemetic is useful.
Other studies conclude that prophylactic colonic resection cannot prevent recurrent disease and its complications.
The biggest Y2K doomsayers were the computer consultants who raked in big bucks peddling prophylactic programming.
And I would not advise taking immune-stimulating herbs as a prophylactic measure.
These lesions, being visible during eye examinations, are often considered for prophylactic therapy in an attempt to prevent retinal detachment.
It instead violates a prophylactic rule intended to help discipline police and deter coerced confessions.
Their susceptibility to ten antibiotics used in curative or prophylactic treatment was measured.
Personally, I am less and less persuaded by prophylactic arguments directed at teenage wisdom.
The role of traditional risk factors and prophylactic measures in air travel-related venous thromboembolism needs further investigation.
In pre-modern medicine, catholicon was a soft electuary, so called as being supposedly universal in its curative and prophylactic abilities.
While travelers to malarial regions can take prophylactic medicines, these drugs are too toxic for long-term use for residents.
Nitrates and calcium channel blocking drugs can be tried taken sublingually for episodes of pain or orally and regularly as a prophylactic.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I find that as a prophylactic a little brandy is almost a necessity in this climate.
Cold infusion of tar was used in our colonies as a prophylactic against the Small Pox.
Certain physicians employed a prophylactic remedy made up of very many substances.
According to Hahnemann, Koreff, and Randhahn, belladonna is a prophylactic against scarlet fever.
It is not only an antidote, but one of those antidotes which taken in time is prophylactic.
As a result, more women who carry the genes are having prophylactic mastectomies before cancer can grow.
From this, we could work out the proportions of cases in which IV access was established for drug administration, for fluid resuscitation or as a prophylactic measure.
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