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preventative medicines

preventative medicines is the plural of preventative medicine.

Meaning of preventative medicine

Noun

preventative medicine (countable and uncountable, plural preventative medicines)

  1. medicine given to prevent illness, rather than treat it.

Questions about preventative medicines

What is preventative medicines the plural of?
Preventative medicines is the plural of preventative medicine.

Words near preventative medicines in the dictionary

  1. preventables
  2. preventably
  3. preventative
  4. preventative maintenance
  5. preventative medicine
  6. preventative medicines
  7. preventatively
  8. preventatives
  9. prevented
  10. preventer
  11. preventers

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