• n.
    ⦿remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease
    lexical concept
  • the doctor recommended several preventatives

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:preventative
  2. enl:preventive
  3. enl:prophylactic
wn:interlingual indexili:i57663

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelpreventativepreventiveprophylactic