GRE Word List
PROPHYLACTIC
guarding from or preventing the spread or occurrence of disease or infection
The meaning of the word prophylactic is guarding from or preventing the spread or occurrence of disease or infection.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| homeostasis | a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group |
| glossary | a collection of textual glosses or of specialized terms with their meanings |
| evince | to constitute outward evidence of |
| detrimental | obviously harmful : damaging |
| panache | an ornamental tuft (as of feathers) especially on a helmet |
| cauterize | to sear with a cautery or caustic |
| epitaph | an inscription on or at a tomb or a grave in memory of the one buried there |
| ebullient | boiling |
| cohere | to hold together firmly as parts of the same mass |
| cadaver | a dead body |