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STYMYING |
Preventing |
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ANTIZYMIC |
Preventing fermentation. |
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DYKES |
Raised mounds preventing flooding |
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ANTIPYIC |
Checking or preventing suppuration. |
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ANTIZYMOTIC |
Preventing fermentation or decomposition. |
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ANTIHYDROPHOBIC |
Counteracting or preventing hydrophobia. |
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ANTIVARIOLOUS |
Preventing the contagion of smallpox. |
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ANTIPYRETIC |
Efficacious in preventing or allaying fever. |
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NUTRITIOUS |
Nourishing; promoting growth, or preventing decay;
alimental. |
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ANTIPLASTIC |
Preventing or checking the process of healing, or
granulation. |
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ANTIPYROTIC |
Anything of use in preventing or healing burns or
pyrosis. |
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ANTISEPTICAL |
Counteracting or preventing putrefaction, or a
putrescent tendency in the system; antiputrefactive. |
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PREVENTION |
The act of preventing or hindering; obstruction of
action, access, or approach; thwarting. |
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FARRIERY |
The art of preventing, curing, or mitigating diseases of
horses and cattle; the veterinary art. |
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PREVENTIVE |
Tending to defeat or hinder; obviating; preventing the
access of; as, a medicine preventive of disease. |
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IMPENETRABLE |
Having the property of preventing any other substance
from occupying the same space at the same time. |
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CONSTIPATE |
To stop (a channel) by filling it, and preventing
passage through it; as, to constipate the capillary vessels. |
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RACK |
A frame or device of various construction for holding, and
preventing the waste of, hay, grain, etc., supplied to beasts. |
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NECESSARY |
Impossible to be otherwise, or to be dispensed with,
without preventing the attainment of a desired result; indispensable;
requiste; essential. |
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ANTIPERIODIC |
A remedy possessing the property of preventing the
return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in
intermittent fevers. |
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TURNSTILE |
A revolving frame in a footpath, preventing the passage
of horses or cattle, but admitting that of persons; a turnpike. See
Turnpike, n., 1. |
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PASTEURISM |
A method of treatment, devised by Pasteur, for
preventing certain diseases, as hydrophobia, by successive inoculations
with an attenuated virus of gradually increasing strength. |
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PROPHYLAXIS |
The art of preserving from, or of preventing, disease;
the observance of the rules necessary for the preservation of health;
preservative or preventive treatment. |
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EXCLUSION |
The act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by
thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection;
prohibition; the state of being excluded. |
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SUFFLAMINATE |
To retard the motion of, as a carriage, by
preventing one or more of its wheels from revolving, either by means of
a chain or otherwise. |