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Prevention
- noun - the act of preventing; "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza"
Preventive
- adjective - an agent or device intended to prevent conception
- any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
- preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease; "preventive medicine"; "vaccines are prophylactic"; "a prophylactic drug"
- remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease; "the doctor recommended several preventatives"
- tending to prevent or hinder
Prisonlike
- adjective - resembling a prison
Probenecid
- noun - a uricosuric drug that reduces the level of uric acid in the blood; used to treat gout
Proconsuls
- noun - a provincial governor of consular rank in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire
- an anthropoid ape of the genus Proconsul
- an official in a modern colony who has considerable administrative power
Profundity
- noun - intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc; "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence"
- the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
- the quality of being physically deep; "the profundity of the mine was almost a mile"
- wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; "the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs"
Progenitor
- noun - an ancestor in the direct line
Prolongate
- - To prolong; to extend in space or in time.
Prolonging
- verb - Extend
- lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer; "We prolonged our stay"; "She extended her visit by another day"; "The meeting was drawn out until midnight"
- lengthen or extend in duration or space; "We sustained the diplomatic negotiations as long as possible"; "prolong the treatment of the patient"; "keep up the good work"