Associations to the word «Prophylaxis»

Wiktionary

PROPHYLAXIS, noun. (medicine) Prevention of, or protective treatment for disease.
PROPHYLAXIS, noun. (chess) A move or strategy that frustrates an opponent's plan or tactic.

Dictionary definition

PROPHYLAXIS, noun. The prevention of disease.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King