Usually means: Protective, guarding against infection, disease.
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  1. phylactic: Collins English Dictionary
  2. phylactic: Wiktionary
  3. phylactic: Infoplease Dictionary
  4. phylactic: Dictionary.com
  5. phylactic: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. phylactic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. phylactic: Medical dictionary

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (phylactic)

▸ adjective:  (medicine) That protects (against disease)
▸ adjective:  Relating to phylaxis
▸ noun:  A protection against disease

Similar:
pharmacoprotective, thrombophylactic, synteretic, antipathogenic, thromboprophylactic, pneumoprotective, antiphthisic, antiphthisical, antipestilential, antipharmic, more...

Opposite:
aphylactic, non-phylactic, unprotected

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Similar:
pharmacoprotective, thrombophylactic, synteretic, antipathogenic, thromboprophylactic, pneumoprotective, antiphthisic, antiphthisical, antipestilential, antipharmic, more...

Opposite:
aphylactic, non-phylactic, unprotected



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