preventive lietuviškai

Paaiškinimas anglų kalba

• a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc. "he put an ice pack on the injury as a precaution" "an insurance policy is a good safeguard" "we let our guard down"
• an agent or device intended to prevent conception
• any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
• remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease "the doctor recommended several preventatives"
• tending or having the power to preserve "timbers should be treated with a preservative substance"
• preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease "preventive medicine" "vaccines are prophylactic" "a prophylactic drug"
• tending to prevent or hinder