Word Finder - prevention

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The act of preventing or hindering; obstruction of action, access, or approach; thwarting.

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a fire prevention campaign

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Any measure intended to limit health-related risks (such as information campaigns, vaccination, early diagnosis etc.).

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The act of going, or state of being, before.

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Anticipation; especially, anticipation of needs, wishes, hazards and risks

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Precaution; forethought.

A bill for the better prevention of pellagra was introduced in the spring of 1902.

Every power, is, therefore, rightfully interested in the prevention of such exclusion.

For the prevention of accidents from over-winding, detaching hooks are used.

The principles are the same as those which govern the prevention of other infectious diseases.

For the next sixty years an urgent question was the prevention of floods in the capital.

These are a few of the hundreds of snoring prevention products on the market.

Is there a fire prevention cap on the chimney?

Food safety is the surest prevention for botulism.

The former at Pavia (15th October I 2878), and the latter at Arco (3rd November), declared publicly that Irredentist manifestations could not be prevented under existing laws, but gave no hint of introducing any law to sanction their prevention.

As of 2004, cri du chat syndrome had no known prevention.

As the Badische process effects this prevention by cooling the contact apparatus by means of the gaseous mixture to be later submitted to the catalytic action, the mixture is at the time heated up to the requisite temperature, and a considerable saving of fuel is the consequence.

The Committee of General Security had unlimited powers for the prevention or discovery of crime against the state.

In 1884 he was responsible for the establishment of the London society for the prevention of cruelty to children, which four years later was established on a national basis.

Trevelyan had been appointed chief secretary in May 1882, and in July the Crimes Prevention Act was passed for three years on lines indicated by Lord Cowper.

The truth about stretching New research shows that stretching can aid in the prevention of injury of stress factures that plague distance runners.

Instead, upon notifying the affected product vendor, 3Com provides its customers with zero day protection through its intrusion prevention technology.

He conducts research in the area of parenting, family psychology and the treatment and prevention of childhood psychopathology.

You must put appropriate systems and reporting arrangements in place to allow effective prevention, control and recovery of arrears.

The best prevention against these outrages is to use a door chain to prevent unexpected callers from entering your house.

Parental concerns in younger children should be directed toward the prevention of accidental swallowing or ingestion of foreign bodies.

But Sir John Strachey, the author of the scheme, explains in his book on India that the original intention was nothing more than the annual application of surplus revenue, of the indicated amount, to purposes of famine relief; and that when the country was free from famine, this sum should be regularly devoted to the discharge of debt, or to the prevention of debt which would otherwise have been incurred for the construction of railways and canals.

Iron deficiency caused by hookworm infection requires drug therapy to eliminate the parasite; prevention includes wearing shoes when walking in soil known to be infested with hookworms.

Older children and adults with botulism are sometimes treated with an antitoxin derived from horse serum that is distributed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

It must be remembered that short-sight tends to increase during the early, especially the school, years of life, and that hygienic treatment, good light, good type, and avoidance of stooping are important for its prevention.

Of these several copies had to be made, both by way of prevention against the wear and tear of use and as a means of satisfying the desire of other persons than the original possessor to be acquainted with their contents.

The county council have the same power as a sanitary authority to enforce the provisions of the Rivers Pollution Prevention Acts in relation to so much of any stream as passes through Revers or by any part of their county.

It is also forbidden to let houses or rooms in which infected persons have been lodging, or to make false statements to persons negotiating for the hire of such rooms. An act was passed in the year 1890, called the Infectious Diseases Prevention Act.

The principal features of this invention are, first, a much more thorough purification of the burner-gas than had been practised up to that time, both in a chemical and a mechanical sense, and second, the prevention of superheating of the contact substance, which formerly always occurred by the heat generated in the process itself.

The prevention of hypoxic hypoxia is essential in the aviation environment.

What they can offer Staff involved with secondary prevention.

We may check your details with fraud prevention agencies.

The mainstay of prevention involves avoiding areas known to harbor ticks.

There was as of 2004 no known prevention of hypospadias.

Practicing prevention may help you avoid future nail rings and nail disorders.

There is good reason to believe that the system was as effectual in the prevention and punishment of crime and in the redress of wrongs as any other human contrivance has ever been.

Evans, E.C. and Gray, M. (2003) What interventions are effective for the prevention and treatment of cutaneous candidiasis?

Pest & disease watch Garden hygiene helps greatly in the prevention of disease carry-over from one year to the next.

Contemporary so-called anti-terror laws can trace their origin in a seamless continuity to the Prevention of Terrorism Act 1974.

The Ulster Society for the Prevention of cruelty to animals gets 7,000 animal cruelty calls each month.

This document describes what causes calf diphtheria, clinical signs and symptoms, diagnosis, available treatments, and prevention and control measures.

Conventional prevention and treatment of this problem involves acidification of the urine in order to prevent or dissolve the encrustation.

The most intelligent military can destroy the enmity within the enemy Maharishi explained the logic of prevention.

Advice on aspirin for primary prevention requires formal accurate estimation of absolute coronary event risk.

Search Randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled trials were sought using feverfew for the prevention of migraine.

Efficacy and cost of low-molecular-weight heparin compared with standard heparin for the prevention of deep vein thrombosis after total hip arthroplasty.

Methodological issues raise by the evaluation of crime prevention initiatives will also be assessed.

These data suggest a novel use for type I interferons in the treatment or prevention of virus-induced asthma exacerbations.

New European guidelines for control and prevention of travel associated legionnaires ' disease have recently been produced and adopted by the group.

We see the time as now opportune for a major step forward in the field of Health and Prevention.

The efficacy of calcitonin for fracture prevention in steroid-induced osteoporosis remains to be established.