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Definition of Hygiene
1. Noun. A condition promoting sanitary practices. "Personal hygiene"
2. Noun. The science concerned with the prevention of illness and maintenance of health.
Definition of Hygiene
1. n. 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.
Definition of Hygiene
1. Noun. The science of health, its promotion and preservation. ¹
2. Noun. Those conditions and practices that promote and preserve health. ¹
3. Noun. Cleanliness, in the context of personal hygiene. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hygiene
1. the science of health [n -S] : HYGIENIC [adj]
Medical Definition of Hygiene
1. The science of health and how to maintain it. A condition or practice which promotes good health. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hygiene
Literary usage of Hygiene
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, Marion A. Knight, H.W. Wilson Company, Estella E. Painter (1920)
"Soc hygiene 3:11-2Г> Ja '17 Educational attack on the problems of social 77 ...
Soc hygiene hygiene 3:157-63 Ap '17 Interest of life insurance companies In ..."
2. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1914)
"Physical training with special corrective work ami hygiene (including ...
Teaching of hygiene. US Bur. Educ. Bui. Teaching of hygiene below the high school. ..."
3. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association (1921)
"The number of states having divisions of child hygiene in 1918 was eight. By 1921
the number had increased to thirty-eight. The majority of these divisions ..."
4. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"The first maxim of mental hygiene is that the nervous system must be kept in a
healthy ... Indeed, physical hygiene here becomes an essential part of the ..."
5. Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin by Public Affairs Information Service (1920)
"See Ability tests Mental hygiene Community mental health movement and its ...
Mental hygiene during childhood. IS Wile. Med Rec 97:561-5 An 3 '20 Read ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"PG STILES RACE hygiene IN NORWAY THE Norwegian government under the lead of
Professor Jon Alfred Mjoen, of Christiania, well known for his researches in ..."
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