Preventive vs Antigonorrhoeic - What's the difference?
preventive | antigonorrhoeic |
Preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to.
Carried out to deter military aggression.
Slowing the development of an illness; prophylactic.
* Sir Thomas Browne
(obsolete) Going before; preceding.
* Cudworth
(dated) A thing that prevents, hinders, or acts as an obstacle to.
* 1856 , Henry William Herbert, The Complete Manual for Young Sportsmen
(nonstandard) A thing that slows the development of an illness.
A contraceptive, especially a condom.
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(medicine) That which acts against , preventive of gonorrhea.
(medicine) An agent which is utilised to prevent the process of gonorrhoea in people.
As adjectives the difference between preventive and antigonorrhoeic
is that preventive is while antigonorrhoeic is (medicine) that which acts against , preventive of gonorrhea.As a noun antigonorrhoeic is
(medicine) an agent which is utilised to prevent the process of gonorrhoea in people.preventive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Physic is either curative or preventive .
- Any previous counsel or preventive understanding.
Noun
(en noun)- Dogs should be warmly but airily housed; heartily, but not heatingly, fed — old Indian meal, mixed with oatmeal, suppawn, is the best general food, with a small quantity of salt, which is a preventive against worms