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- adverb
Preventively .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Low-dose antibiotics are used prophylactically in the animal industry with the goal of preventing illnesses in crowded animal facilities and to promote growth.
Sunil Chacko: Time for Antibiotics-Free Animal Industry Practices Sunil Chacko 2011
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The drops may help to reduce and shorten the symptoms of EKC infections and may also be used prophylactically to prevent the virus spreading, they said.
New Eye Treatment: Drops to Pre-empt Pinkeye Outbreak Ann Lukits 2011
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Subsequently, on Dec. 23, the French Ministry of Health advised the estimated 30,000 French women with PIP implants to have their implants removed prophylactically, and France has said it will bear the cost of those procedures.
Michael Yaremchuk, M.D.: The PIP Affair and Trust in Health Care M.D. Michael Yaremchuk 2012
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Low-dose antibiotics are used prophylactically in the animal industry with the goal of preventing illnesses in crowded animal facilities and to promote growth.
Sunil Chacko: Time for Antibiotics-Free Animal Industry Practices Sunil Chacko 2011
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Subsequently, on Dec. 23, the French Ministry of Health advised the estimated 30,000 French women with PIP implants to have their implants removed prophylactically, and France has said it will bear the cost of those procedures.
Michael Yaremchuk, M.D.: The PIP Affair and Trust in Health Care M.D. Michael Yaremchuk 2012
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Subsequently, on Dec. 23, the French Ministry of Health advised the estimated 30,000 French women with PIP implants to have their implants removed prophylactically, and France has said it will bear the cost of those procedures.
Michael Yaremchuk, M.D.: The PIP Affair and Trust in Health Care M.D. Michael Yaremchuk 2012
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Last night, before the Snowpocalypse started, but not before the panic, we got on the subway with a lot of other prophylactically bundled-up and snow-booted people and went to see Measure for Measure at the Duke theatre.
Measure For Measure deliasherman 2010
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Last night, before the Snowpocalypse started, but not before the panic, we got on the subway with a lot of other prophylactically bundled-up and snow-booted people and went to see Measure for Measure at the Duke theatre.
Measure For Measure deliasherman 2010
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They remarked, prophylactically, that there were no female —
On Deadline Jonathan Sapers 2010
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Subsequently, on Dec. 23, the French Ministry of Health advised the estimated 30,000 French women with PIP implants to have their implants removed prophylactically, and France has said it will bear the cost of those procedures.
Michael Yaremchuk, M.D.: The PIP Affair and Trust in Health Care M.D. Michael Yaremchuk 2012
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