prophylaxis

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek πρό (pró, “before”) + φύλαξις (phúlaxis, “a watching, guarding”).

Noun

prophylaxis (countable and uncountable, plural prophylaxes)

1. (medicine) Prevention of, or protective treatment for disease.
2. (chess) A move or strategy that frustrates an opponent's plan or tactic.

Derived terms

• chemoprophylaxis
• homeoprophylaxis
• immunoprophylaxis
• monoprophylaxis
• post-exposure prophylaxis
• pre-exposure prophylaxis
• prophylactic
• psychoprophylaxis
• seroprophylaxis
• thromboprophylaxis
• zooprophylaxis

 

Translations

prevention of, or protective treatment for disease

• Arabic: وِقَايَة f (wiqāya)
• Armenian: պրոֆիլակտիկա (hy) (profilaktika), կանխարգելում (hy) (kanxargelum)
• Catalan: profilaxi f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 預防／预防 (zh) (yùfáng), 预防 (zh) (yùfáng)

• Finnish: profylaksia (fi)
• French: prophylaxie (fr) f
• German: Prophylaxe (de) f
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• Irish: urchoscacht f
• Japanese: 予防 (ja) (よぼう, yobō)
• Portuguese: profilaxia (pt) f
• Russian: профила́ктика (ru) f (profiláktika)
• Spanish: profilaxis (es) f
• Swedish: profylax (sv)
• Walloon: espaitchance (wa) f (neologism)

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “prophylaxis”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.