prophylaxis

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Etymology

From Latin, from Ancient Greek πρό (pró, “before”) + φύλαξις (phúlaxis, “a watching, guarding”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹɔfɪˈlæksɪs/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -æksɪs

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
• fluoroprophylaxis
• homeoprophylaxis
• immunoprophylaxis
• metaprophylaxis
• monoprophylaxis
• pharmacoprophylaxis
• post-exposure prophylaxis
• pre-exposure prophylaxis
• propho
• prophylactic
• prophylaxed
• psychoprophylaxis
• seroprophylaxis
• thromboprophylaxis
• zooprophylaxis

Translations

prevention of, or protective treatment for disease

Arabic: وِقَايَة f (wiqāya) Armenian: պրոֆիլակտիկա (hy) (profilaktika), կանխարգելում (hy) (kanxargelum) Belarusian: прафіла́ктыка f (prafiláktyka) Bulgarian: профилактика f (profilaktika) Catalan: profilaxi f Chinese: Mandarin: 預防 / 预防 (zh) (yùfáng) Finnish: ehkäisy (fi) (prevention); ehkäisyhoito (treatment) French: prophylaxie (fr) f German: Prophylaxe (de) f, Vorbeugung (de) f Hungarian: megelőzés (hu), kórmegelőzés, profilaxis (hu), (treatment) megelőző kezelés Irish: urchoscacht f Italian: profilassi (it) f Japanese: 予防 (ja) (よぼう, yobō) Kazakh: алдын алу (aldyn alu) Polish: profilaktyka (pl) f Portuguese: profilaxia (pt) f Russian: профила́ктика (ru) f (profiláktika) Sicilian: prufilassi f Spanish: profilaxis (es) f Swedish: profylax (sv) Ukrainian: профіла́ктика f (profiláktyka) Walloon: espaitchance (wa) f (neologism) Welsh: proffylacsis m

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2025), “prophylaxis”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.