Preventive

Preventive - Other Definitions

• (a.) Going before; preceding.
  
  
• (a.) Tending to defeat or hinder; obviating; preventing the access of; as, a medicine preventive of disease.
  
  
• (n.) That which prevents, hinders, or obstructs; that which intercepts access; in medicine, something to prevent disease; a prophylactic.
  
  
• (adv.) In a preventive manner.