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practices promoting the prevention of illness and maintenance of health — such as cleanliness or promoting sanitary conditions

hygiene = practices promoting sanitary conditions

hygiene = practices promoting sanitary conditions

The hand hygiene guidelines were developed by the CDC's Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee.
Poor personal hygiene is a sign of depression.
For a half hour he lectured us on oral hygiene, demonstrating the proper flossing and brushing techniques, then afterward he opened up shop in a small field tent and we all took turns going in for personal exams.
Tim O'Brien -- The Things They Carried

hygiene = practices promoting the prevention of illness and maintenance of health

On this point, however, Blanca was inflexible, forcing her daughter to observe a strict schedule and the usual rules of hygiene.
Isabel Allende -- The House of Spirits

hygiene = practices promoting the prevention of illness and maintenance of health — such as cleanliness

He knew the value of hygiene and he appreciated a healthful diet.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter

hygiene = practices promoting the prevention of illness and maintenance of health — such as cleanliness

Somewhere in there was a lecture on personal hygiene by the head Englishman., and then a free election.
Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five

hygiene = practices promoting the prevention of illness and maintenance of health — such as cleanliness

We appointed a Jewish Council, a Jewish police, an office for social assistance, a labor committee, a hygiene department —a whole government machinery.
Elie Wiesel -- Night

hygiene = practices promoting the prevention of illness and maintenance of health — such as promoting sanitary conditions

Hygiene became a matter of small consequence.
Tim O'Brien -- The Things They Carried
He simply used her as a hygienic method for relieving the tensions of the day and obtaining a good night's sleep.
Isabel Allende -- The House of Spirits
The other half seemed a bit more westernized, more open to variation, more cultured and friendly, and definitely more hygienic.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
Dave Jensen, who practiced field hygiene, carried a toothbrush, dental floss, and several hotel-sized bars of soap he'd stolen on R&R in Sydney, Australia.
Tim O'Brien -- The Things They Carried
He would realize that his professional future was in America, not in a backward nation that had yet to learn the lessons of basic hygiene and social justice.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
Nasserine kept a cleaner home than Essey, but I soon realized that she was an atrocious cook, neither knowing nor caring much about hygiene, nutrition, or palatability.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
I wasn't sure what Jem resented most, but I took umbrage at Mrs. Dubose's assessment of the family's mental hygiene.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

hygiene = practices to prevent illness

If we pay absolutely no attention to what is called hereditary hygiene, we could find ourselves facing a degeneration of the human race.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World

hygiene = practices promoting the prevention of illness and maintenance of health

Not for nothing was the word "latrine-rumour" invented; these places are the regimental gossip-shops and common-rooms. We feel ourselves for the time being better off than in any palatial white-tiled "convenience." There it can only be hygienic; here it is beautiful. These are wonderfully care-free hours.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

hygienic = cleanliness promoting the prevention of illness

Madam Pomfrey, however, felt it might not be very hygienic, and confiscated it.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
At first it had been mental hygiene, protection of his morale.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Tunnel In the Sky

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