Word Meanings - HYGIENIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to health or hygiene; sanitary.
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- SANITARY
Of or pertaining to health; designed to secure or preserve health; relating to the preservation or restoration of health; hygienic; as, sanitary regulations. See the Note under Sanatory. Sanitary Commission. See under Commission. - REMEDIAL
Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment. Statutes are declaratory or remedial. Blackstone. It is an evil not compensated by any beneficial result; it is not remedial, - REMEDIALLY
In a remedial manner. - HYGIENICS
The science of health; hygiene. - HYGIENIC
Of or pertaining to health or hygiene; sanitary. - THERAPEUTIC
One of the Therapeutæ. - THERAPEUTICS
That part of medical science which treats of the discovery and application of remedies for diseases. - THERAPEUTIC; THERAPEUTICAL
Of or pertaining to the healing art; concerned in discovering and applying remedies for diseases; curative. "Therapeutic or curative physic." Sir T. Browne. Medicine is justly distributed into "prophylactic," or the art of preserving health, and - SANATORY
Conducive to health; tending to cure; healing; curative; sanative. Sanatory ordinances for the protection of public health, such as quarantine, fever hospitals, draining, etc. De Quincey. Note: Sanatory and sanitary should not be confounded. - SANATIVE
Having the power to cure or heal; healing; tending to heal; sanatory. -- San"a*tive*ness, n. - CURATIVE
Relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to cure. Arbuthnot. - INSANITARY
Not sanitary; unhealthy; as, insanitary conditions of drainage. - ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS
The branch of medical science which treats of the applications agent. - HYDROTHERAPEUTICS
A system of treating disease by baths and mineral waters. - PSYCHOTHERAPEUTICS
The treatment of disease by acting on the mind, as by suggestion; mind cure; psychotherapy.