prevention
pre·ven·tion (prē ven′s̸hən, pri-)
noun
- the act of preventing
- Now Rare a means of preventing; preventive
prevention
n.
Antonyms
Preposition: of
- nuisance: Reasons for granting the application with modifications and conditions The prevention of public nuisance.
- blindness: In 1998 a national campaign for the prevention of blindness focused on cataract surgery.
- osteoporosis: It plays a great role in the prevention of osteoporosis.
- homelessness: The report argues that the need to focus on prevention of homelessness is now widely accepted.
- obesity: Services have been developed to assist in prevention of obesity and treating those who are already obese.
- disease: HRT appeared to have an additional role in the prevention of chronic disease in older women.
Converse of object
- emphasize: Gibbs emphasized that prevention is key and that good housing advice can help people hold onto their homes.
Adjective modifier
- secondary: What they can offer Staff involved with secondary prevention.
- hiv/aids: We work to reduce harmful child labor; promote education for child workers and rural children; support sexual healthcare and HIV/AIDS prevention.
- primary: As we have very small numbers of IHD patients we obtained approval to place more emphasis on primary prevention as follows.
- cardiovascular: June 2005 To use the data to investigate the economics of cardiovascular disease prevention in primary care.
- sore: Talley Medical Talley Group Ltd is the UK's largest privately owned specialist in pressure sore prevention and therapy products.
Modifies a noun
- strategy: SETTING: Decision about a cancer prevention strategy at the time of a positive result on genetic testing.
- measure: The document has a strong emphasis on prevention measures.
Noun used with modifier
- crime: Your first call should be to your crime prevention officer at your local police station.
- fraud: We may check your details with fraud prevention agencies.
- relapse: Pip Mason Consultancy runs courses on stopping smoking, smoking and pregnancy and relapse prevention and management.
- intrusion: Instead, upon notifying the affected product vendor, 3Com provides its customers with zero day protection through its intrusion prevention technology.
- suicide: There are chapters which have implications for suicide prevention.
- pollution: Therefore, appropriate pollution prevention guidance should be followed.
A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.
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