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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hygiene
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hygiene regulations (=relating to keeping restaurants, hotel kitchens etc clean)
▪ Hygiene regulations stipulate that the caterer must use suitable equipment.
safety/hygiene/quality etc standards
▪ All our products meet the current safety standards.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dental
▪ Regular brushing is the lynchpin of all good dental hygiene.
good
▪ Most do only limited damage to plants, and good garden hygiene is usually adequate treatment if they get out of hand.
▪ Unfortunately, just practicing good sleep hygiene is not always enough to prevent insomnia.
▪ Regular brushing is the lynchpin of all good dental hygiene.
▪ This includes having a balanced and nutritious diet and good personal hygiene.
▪ Hygiene Regular performance of good hygiene practices helps to promote healthy skin, teeth and hair.
▪ Normal everyday standards of good hygiene are quite sufficient.
▪ At any age, good toilet hygiene is essential for preventing infections.
oral
▪ What are the complications of dehydration, and those of poor oral hygiene?
▪ It was aimed at teaching children correct diet, oral hygiene instruction and the importance of visiting the dentist.
▪ The oral hygiene index was calculated as the sum of the debris and calculus indices.
▪ The oral hygiene index carried about the same level of increased risk for total mortality as for the incidence of coronary heart disease.
▪ A unit increase in the oral hygiene index was associated with a 1.12-fold increased risk of coronary heart disease in younger men.
▪ The biological mechanism by which periodontal disease or poor oral hygiene could lead to coronary heart disease is not clearly established.
▪ Both periodontal disease and poor oral hygiene showed stronger associations with total mortality than with coronary heart disease.
personal
▪ The reason for this is that the amount of water used for personal hygiene is reduced.
▪ Next comes a personal hygiene kit, including soap, towels, and lice-killing combs to help the girls concentrate in class.
▪ Elimination: problems may manifest as constipation, fluid retention, congested skin, catarrh. 4. Personal hygiene. 5.
▪ For anyone who had to work in the streets, personal hygiene was fundamental.
▪ Some young men never have really thought about personal hygiene very much and react very badly if the subject is mentioned.
▪ Alexander said that careful personal hygiene and good eating habits are the best ways to prevent infection.
▪ I had underestimated the importance placed on personal cleanliness and hygiene, and had been caught out on my underpants.
▪ His life story bristles with less-than-sensitive remarks about personal hygiene, chihuahuas, babies and rectal thermometers.
poor
▪ What are the complications of dehydration, and those of poor oral hygiene?
▪ Con: You have to blame the gym sauna for poor hygiene when you give him crabs.
▪ The home had been shut down following complaints of poor hygiene.
▪ The biological mechanism by which periodontal disease or poor oral hygiene could lead to coronary heart disease is not clearly established.
▪ Both periodontal disease and poor oral hygiene showed stronger associations with total mortality than with coronary heart disease.
▪ The Consumers'Association blames poor hygiene standards.
▪ There's no evidence that a bad diet, or poor hygiene, causes the condition.
■ NOUN
food
▪ The government has already introduced tougher laws on food hygiene and now it hopes the register will help council officers enforce them.
▪ The initiative aims at further enhancing already high standards of food hygiene in tenanted houses.
▪ There are 30 courses dedicated to specific safety issues, such as handling portable gas cylinders, food hygiene and accident investigation procedures.
▪ The kitchen area accords with the latest food hygiene regulations.
▪ The case came to light at Liverpool magistrates' court when Shaw Bakery was prosecuted for a lapse in food hygiene standards.
▪ Training is essential and basic food hygiene courses can be completed in six hours.
▪ A Food Standards Agency to take responsibility for food hygiene and safety.
▪ We introduced the 1990 Food Safety Act to ensure the highest standards of food hygiene.
regulation
▪ The Government hopes it will help councils enforce hygiene regulations.
▪ The kitchen area accords with the latest food hygiene regulations.
standard
▪ The case came to light at Liverpool magistrates' court when Shaw Bakery was prosecuted for a lapse in food hygiene standards.
▪ However, at the same time I must say that we have very high welfare and hygiene standards in this country.
▪ But three of the supermarkets involved insist that their hygiene standards are high and their own tests found no evidence of bacteria.
▪ The Consumers'Association blames poor hygiene standards.
▪ A complete planned maintenance programme is necessary to ensure that pests are controlled and hygiene standards are maintained.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A healthy lifestyle includes having a nutritious diet and good personal hygiene.
▪ public hygiene
▪ Restaurants may be closed down if they fail to maintain minimum standards of hygiene.
▪ Schools should have policies to ensure good hygiene in kitchen areas.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Food hygiene is just as important when on holiday as at home - if not more so.
▪ He had given up such niceties as hygiene, and now lived for only one thing.
▪ However, in many cases they are not entirely necessary, and their use replaces more stringent hygiene procedures.
▪ Normal everyday hygiene precautions are adequate.
▪ Overall, only two out of three supermarkets, one in three delicatessens and one in five butchers scored high marks for hygiene.
▪ Scientists have attacked the problem from every angle, by education, improving hygiene and eradicating the snail.
▪ The Government hopes it will help councils enforce hygiene regulations.
▪ The reason for this is that the amount of water used for personal hygiene is reduced.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hygiene

Regimen \Reg"i*men\ (r?j"?*m?n), n. [L. regimen, -inis, fr. regere to guide, to rule. See Right, and cf. Regal, R['e]gime, Regiment.]

  1. Orderly government; system of order; adminisration.
    --Hallam.

  2. Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation; esp. (Med.), a systematic course of diet, etc., pursed with a view to improving or preserving the health, or for the purpose of attaining some particular effect, as a reduction of flesh; -- sometimes used synonymously with hygiene.

  3. (Gram.)

    1. A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government.

    2. The word or words governed.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hygiene

1670s, from French hygiène, ultimately from Greek hygieine techne "the healthful art," from hygies "healthy," literally "living well" (personified as the goddess Hygieia), from PIE *eyu-gwie-es- "having a vigorous life." The Greek adjective was used by Aristotle as a noun meaning "health."

Wiktionary
hygiene

n. 1 The science of health, its promotion and preservation. 2 Those conditions and practices that promote and preserve health. 3 cleanliness. 4 (cx computing slang of a macro English) The property of having an expansion that is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.

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WordNet
hygiene

  1. n. a condition promoting sanitary practices; "personal hygiene"

  2. the science concerned with the prevention of illness and maintenance of health [syn: hygienics]

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Wikipedia
Hygiene

Hygiene is a set of practices performed for the preservation of health. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), "Hygiene refers to conditions and practices that help to maintain health and prevent the spread of diseases."

Whereas in popular culture and parlance it can often mean mere 'cleanliness', hygiene in its fullest and original meaning goes much beyond that to include all circumstances and practices, lifestyle issues, premises and commodities that engender a safe and healthy environment. While in modern medical sciences there is a set of standards of hygiene recommended for different situations, what is considered hygienic or not can vary between different cultures, genders and etarian groups. Some regular hygienic practices may be considered good habits by a society while the neglect of hygiene can be considered disgusting, disrespectful or even threatening.

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Usage examples of "hygiene".

As Zella and I prepped the patient, they went through the Detainment Area, and came back with a small garment-repair kit, a thermal braising tool, and a pile of personal hygiene sponges.

The fourth and fifth books take up hygiene, special dietetics, and general pathology.

The setting may be clinical, but the enema must be administered for punishment rather than health or hygiene, and always In conjunction with spanking.

Every eugenist must wish them success in their efforts to promote sex hygiene, but it is a matter of regret that they can not place their efforts in the proper light, for their masquerade as a eugenic propaganda has brought undeserved reproach on the eugenics movement.

The good hygiene discipline now practised by all our units in Burma, the use of the new drug Mepacrine, and constant spraying with D.

They will assemble mountains of facts about housing, rents, hygiene, income, population, literacy and numeracy, crime, fire, and the number of children, aged and slaves in every family.

It was a severe principle, phyletic hygiene, but it averted much suffering.

The great plague which wasted Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and reappeared in the seventeenth, had been identified with a disease which yields to enlightened treatment, and its ancient virulence was attributed to ignorance of hygiene, and the filthy habits of a former age.

Cowley needed a lot of luck to get laid, what with his acne, his distaste for personal hygiene and his undershot jaw.

They were awful, unglorious deaths, and no one had even been sure if one of the war bugs was responsible, or the cold and hunger and near total lack of modem hygiene.

As if watching Luciano playing tug-of-war with the bottles of Barolo wasnt humiliating enough, now to be confronted with her own utter lack of skills in the domestic hygiene department was mortifying beyond belief.

Hugh and Barong and Mental emerged from the bathroom, glowing with cleanliness and mental hygiene.

So let me get this straight: the deuteronomists, through Hezekiah, impose a policy of informational hygiene on Jerusalem and do some civil-engineering work -- you said they worked on the water supply?

Indeed, the dominant discourses of AIDS prevention have been all about hygiene: We must avoid contact and use protection.

Aside from your own genetic and organic microbial matter, in the form of shed skin and faecal material, there are all the polymer and long-chain molecules not naturally occurring here that are present in your clothing and your hygiene products.