prophylactic
–adjective
1. defending or protecting from disease or infection, as a drug.
2. preventive or protective.
–noun
3. Medicine/Medical. a prophylactic medicine or measure.
4. a preventive.
5. a device, usually a rubber sheath, used to prevent conception or venereal infection; condom.
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