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health

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease; "physicians should be held responsible for the health of their patients" [syn: wellness ] [ant: illness , illness ] the general condition of body and mind; "his delicate health"; "in poor health"

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Health is an attribute assigned to entities within a role-playing or video game that indicates its state in combat. Health is usually measured in hit points or health points , often shortened as HP . When the HP of a player character reaches zero, the player ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English hælþ "wholeness, a being whole, sound or well," from Proto-Germanic *hailitho , from PIE *kailo- "whole, uninjured, of good omen" (cognates: Old English hal "hale, whole;" Old Norse heill "healthy;" Old English halig , Old Norse helge "holy, ...

Usage examples of health.

In offering a few hints for the domestic management of these abnormal conditions, we would at the same time remark, that, while health may be regained by skillful treatment, recovery will be gradual.

None of the men in the household showed any more interest in the state of her health after Keith had commented on the acetone smell.

Assisted by a number of other persons in good health, he experimented on the effects of cinchona, aconite, sulphur, arnica, and the other most highly extolled remedies.

Get it clearly into your mind: one ingenuity of the nicotine trap is that, like all drug addiction, it is designed to keep you hooked, and that the more it adversely affects your health and purse, the more securely you appear to be hooked.

Now the adrenal glands serve a vital functional purpose, necessary to the health of the normal man.

He noted the health of the plants in the aeroponics lab, sketching their leaves and marking the ebb and flow of various diseases.

But when you realize that arterial aging affects a lot more than the arteries going to your heart, the importance of arterial health becomes clearer.

Charles is in weak health just now, only clear of a quartan ague, and it is likely he will keep his cabin most of the voyage.

Both directly and indirectly, therefore, the employments that withdraw women from domestic pursuits are likely to increase alcoholism, and, it may be added, to increase its greatest potency for evil, namely its influence on the health of the stock.

Much as we have gained, we have not yet thoroughly shaken off the notion that poison is the natural food of disease, as wholesome aliment is the support of health.

This meant that once the news of allas and their transfer-ability got out, owning an alla would become seriously hazardous to your health.

But young men are less likely to think of death, and Amado Ortega was just thirty-eight, and in such robust health that he had never visited a doctor.

If, as has chanced to others--as chanced, for example, to Mangan-- outcast from home, health and hope, with a charred past and a bleared future, an anchorite without detachment and self-cloistered without self-sufficingness, deposed from a world which he had not abdicated, pierced with thorns which formed no crown, a poet hopeless of the bays and a martyr hopeless of the palm, a land cursed against the dews of love, an exile banned and proscribed even from the innocent arms of childhood--he were burning helpless at the stake of his unquenchable heart, then he might have been inconsolable, then might he have cast the gorge at life, then have cowered in the darkening chamber of his being, tapestried with mouldering hopes, and hearkened to the winds that swept across the illimitable wastes of death.

He prefers a comfortable hotel on the Promenade des Anglais at Nice, where he recovers health and renovates his nervous system by taking daily excursions along the coast to the Casino.

May, 2002, giving the gist of the above and also commenting that it was all a result of baseless hysteria, and there had never been a shred of evidence that insulating buildings with asbestos was harmful to health.