PREVENTABLE • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Preventable

... result from those diseases as afflictions which could not be prevented. The progress of medicine within twenty years, both preventive and curative, has greatly changed the ethical as well as the physical situation. The policy of silence and concealment concerning evils which are now known to be preventable is no longer justifiable. The thinking public can now learn what these evils are, how destructive they are, and by what measures they may be cured or prevented. With this knowledge goes the responsibility and duty of applying it in defense of ...

— The Social Emergency - Studies in Sex Hygiene and Morals • Various

... omen, and most cases of eclampsia occur with a pressure of 160 or more, but eclampsia may occur with a moderate blood pressure. Irving believes that with proper preliminary preventive treatment most eclampsia is preventable. ...

— DISTURBANCES OF THE HEART • OLIVER T. OSBORNE, A.M., M.D.