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Noun
en-noun
- A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.
- American usage only dated Specifically, a prophylactic condom.
#:1977, Human Life Center, International Review of Natural Family Planning, Human Life Center, St. John's University (1977), p. 2,
#:*It is not clear whether such education is to be directed to homosexuals (for whom prophylactics are not a contraceptive) or to heterosexuals as well (for whom prophylactics are a contraceptive).
#:1994, Mary Louise Roberts, Civilization Without Sexes: reconstructing gender in postwar France, 1917-1927, University of Chicago Press (1994), p. 96,
#:*Given the widespread use of coitus interruptus and male prophylactics as contraceptive practices in France […]
#:2000, Peter Parnell and John Irving, The Cider House Rules: Here in St. Cloud's, Dramatists Play Service, Inc. (2000), p. 46,
#:*Some men put the prophylactic on just the tip of the penis: this is a mistake, because the prophylactic will come off.
Adjective
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- prophylactical|Prophylactical.
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