English-Portuguese translations for prophylactic

• profiláctico
  Promover um estilo de vida saudável é um bom método profiláctico para impedir uma série de doenças. Promoting a healthy lifestyle is a good prophylactic method which can prevent a variety of diseases and illnesses.
  Também aqui, no caso dos animais, podemos registar uma formação de resistências no âmbito profiláctico. We are observing the development of resistance here as well, in the case of animals, in the prophylactic field.
  Ficou acordado que elevados padrões de bem-estar animal e de criação são essenciais para eliminar qualquer necessidade do uso profiláctico dos antibióticos. It was agreed that high standards of animal welfare and husbandry are essential to eliminate any need for such prophylactic use of antibiotics.
• profilático

Definition of prophylactic

• A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive
• Any device or mechanism intended to prevent harmful consequences
• Serving to prevent or protect against an undesired effect, especially disease

Examples

• The securities laws are a prophylactic against stock fraud

Related words

• prophylactically
• prophylactical
• prophylactorium
• prophylactic center