Usually means: Preventive measures against disease, pregnancy.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. prophylactics: Merriam-Webster
  2. prophylactics: Collins English Dictionary
  3. prophylactics: Vocabulary.com
  4. prophylactics: Wordnik
  5. prophylactics: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. prophylactics: Wiktionary
  7. prophylactics: Dictionary.com
  8. Prophylactics: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Prophylactics: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Prophylactics: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Prophylactics: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. prophylactics: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Prophylactics: Medical dictionary
  3. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prophylactics: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See prophylactic as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (prophylactic)

noun:  A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.
noun:  (US, specifically) A prophylactic condom.
noun:  (figuratively) Any device or mechanism intended to prevent harmful consequences.
adjective:  Serving to prevent or protect against an undesired effect, especially disease or pregnancy
▸ Also see prophylactic


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