### prevention | prophylaxis:

Antibiotic prophylaxis
* helps to protect children with sickle cell disease or splenectomy.
* is warranted only in patients with four or more exacerbations per year.

Malaria prophylaxis
* includes medications to help prevent the parasitic infection.
* is important for children
  - prescribed to all pregnant women attending health facilities

Rape prevention
* includes taking reasonable precautions and avoiding high-risk situations.
* is the responsibility of men just as much as women.

Secondary prevention
* aims at helping people who are illicit drug abusers to break their habits
  - to detect diseases in their earliest stages, when they're most treatable
* involves early detection and treatment of disease.
* is aimed at reducing the existing cases of disorders and problems
  - early diagnosis and treatment
  - removal of polyps or cancers before they have the opportunity to spread
* refers to detection of cancers at early stages.

Suicide prevention
* involves knowing the warning signs and taking the necessary preventive steps.
* statewide responsibility that affects the community as a whole.

Tertiary prevention
* focuses on returning individuals with chronic back pain to work.
* involves reducing the effects of malnutrition.
* is aimed at reducing the effects of a condition or disorder
  - the treatment of infected children to reduce or avoid symptoms
* seeks to diminish the incidence of complications of addictive diseases.

Violence prevention
* begins as early as employee screening and hiring.
* involves both local communities and the global communities.
* is about more than the actual violent behavior.
* legitimate concern for physicians and surgeons.
* rapidly developing field that has made great strides in the past ten years.
* starts with an attitude that all individuals and their viewpoints are valued.

### price driven market:

Boat insurance
* price driven market.
* works much like auto insurance.

### priestly action:

Intercession
* is ability to react and act
  - the right way to the right things
  - participation
  - prayer
* is the mother of revelation
  - whole mountain of which prayer is one peak
* prepares and paves the way for rulers to act righteously, or to be judged.
* priestly action.
* specific kind of request, directed towards the needs of others.
* strengthens the believers in daily life as they face temptation.
* takes time and energy.
* way of loving others.

### primarily carbohydrate:

Anaerobic metabolism
* contributes to survival.
* is primarily carbohydrate.
* is used for activities requiring short bursts of energy
  - to produce intense power for a short period of time
* relies exclusively on carbohydrate as an energy source.

### primarily hydrophobic:

Intermolecular interaction
* are primarily hydrophobic.
* occur between all types of molecules or ions in all states of matter.

### primarily intracellular:

Fluid accumulation
* Some fluid accumulation causes pressure.
* is primarily intracellular.

### primarily oxidation react:

Catabolic reaction
* are primarily oxidation reactions.
* release energy and require enzymes.
* result in the release of free energy.

### primarily visual foragers:

Snowy plover
* Most Snowy Plovers breed in the first nesting season after hatching.
* are primarily visual foragers
  - very susceptible to human disturbance
* breed in loose colonies.
* have natural predators such as falcons, owls, raccoons, and coyotes.

### primary malignant tumor:

Cardiac sarcoma
* are malignant, or cancerous.
* primary malignant tumor.
* type of tumor that occurs in the heart.

### primary meristem:

Vascular cambium
* is one of two lateral meristems, the other being cork cambium
  - the site of secondary growth
* occurs between the bark and the wood.
* primary meristem.
* produces secondary xylem to the inside and secondary phloem to the outside.