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  • 11preventive — pre•ven•tive [[t]prɪˈvɛn tɪv[/t]] also pre•vent•a•tive [[t] tə tɪv[/t]] adj. 1) serving to prevent or hinder: preventive measures[/ex] 2) concerned with prevention, as of disease: preventive medicine[/ex] 3) med a drug or other substance for… …

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  • 12preventive — preventively, adv. preventiveness, n. /pri ven tiv/, adj. 1. Med. of or noting a drug, vaccine, etc., for preventing disease; prophylactic. 2. serving to prevent or hinder: preventive measures. n. 3. Med. a drug or other substance for preventing… …

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  • 13preventive — /prəˈvɛntɪv / (say pruh ventiv) adjective 1. Also, preventative /prəˈvɛntətɪv/ (say pruh ventuhtiv). Medicine warding off disease. 2. Also, preventative /prəˈvɛntətɪv/ (say pruh ventuhtiv). serving to prevent or hinder. 3. of or relating to the… …

  • 14preventive — adj. Preventive is used with these nouns: ↑action, ↑care, ↑detention, ↑diplomacy, ↑maintenance, ↑measure, ↑medicine, ↑strategy …

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  • 15Oregon Ballot Measure 23 (2002) — Measure 23 (2002) was a legislatively referred state statute that would have created a single payer health care system to provide health care to every person in Oregon.[1] The proposal would have merged all the various funding streams personal… …

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  • 16HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… …

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  • 17Medical analysis of circumcision — Numerous medical studies have examined the effects of male circumcision with mixed opinions regarding the benefits and risks of the procedure. Opponents of circumcision say it is medically unnecessary, is unethical when performed on newborns, is… …

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  • 18Hostage — A hostage is a person or entity which is held by a captor. The original definition meant that this was handed over by one of two belligerent parties to the other or seized as security for the carrying out of an agreement, or as a preventive… …

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  • 19History of male circumcision — It has been variously proposed that male circumcision began as a religious sacrifice, as a rite of passage marking a boy s entrance into adulthood, as a form of sympathetic magic to ensure virility, as a means of suppressing (or enhancing) sexual …

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  • 20animal disease — ▪ non human Introduction       an impairment of the normal state of an animal that interrupts or modifies its vital functions.       Concern with diseases that afflict animals dates from the earliest human contacts with animals and is reflected… …

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