Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The science that deals with the promotion and preservation of health.
- noun Conditions and practices that serve to promote or preserve health.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That department of medical knowledge which concerns the preservation of health; a system of principles or rules designed for the promotion of health; sanitary science.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That department of sanitary science which treats of the preservation of health, esp. of households and communities; a system of principles or rules designated for the promotion of health.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
science ofhealth , itspromotion andpreservation . - noun Those
conditions andpractices that promote and preserve health. - noun
Cleanliness , in the context ofpersonal hygiene .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a condition promoting sanitary practices
- noun the science concerned with the prevention of illness and maintenance of health
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The class in hygiene is so big that the professor has n't time to read the papers; he just goes down the list and flunks every thirteenth girl.
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Good respiratory system and hand hygiene is pretty much all you can do.
Two companies, two different ways of dealing with Swine Flu Norfolk Blogger 2009
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In the West our increased use of vaccinations and antibiotics and enhancements in hygiene have lead to health improvements for many.
Mark Hyman, MD: 5 Steps to Kill Hidden Bugs in Your Gut That Make You Sick MD Mark Hyman 2010
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In the West our increased use of vaccinations and antibiotics and enhancements in hygiene have lead to health improvements for many.
Mark Hyman, MD: 5 Steps to Kill Hidden Bugs in Your Gut That Make You Sick MD Mark Hyman 2010
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In the West our increased use of vaccinations and antibiotics and enhancements in hygiene have lead to health improvements for many.
Mark Hyman, MD: 5 Steps to Kill Hidden Bugs in Your Gut That Make You Sick MD Mark Hyman 2010
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Hygiene kits have soap and toothpaste, because the hygiene is so poor there that cholera can spread through contact, Aloma said.
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The argument made by the French officials that this woman was banned from using the public pool due to hygiene is weak.
Woman Banned from Public Swimming Pool for Wearing a Burqini : Law is Cool 2009
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The latest findings, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, bolster what is often known as the hygiene theory, which says that contact with bacteria and other microbes is necessary to building a normal immune system.
Greater Germ Exposure Cuts Asthma Risk Shirley S. Wang 2011
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However, the key to good oral hygiene is seeing a dentist twice per year.
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But imposing the plainly false assumption of Analytical Egalitarianism in the name of methodological hygiene is far worse.
qroqqa commented on the word hygiene
Related to bio-, zo- "life" and thus to English quick, Latin viv-, vit-. The labiovelar *gw usually became b but in *su-gwih3- "well-life" the adjacent u delabialized it to g instead. (And zo- is apparently a different dialectal development, *gwj > *gj > *dz > zd. I didn't know that either.)
January 16, 2009