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health (iou)



health noun.

Sound condition of body; freedom from disease. OE.
to your health!, to your good health! expr. a wish for another's well-being uttered by a person drinking.
S. Spender This..period of alternating health and illness. J. Gathorne-Hardy Dr. Wasing's astonishment..as M and B swept his pneumonia patients to health. fig.: Community Librarian The revenue from this source is essential for the continuing health of our journal.
Healing, cure. OE-M16.
Spiritual or moral soundness. Also, salvation. arch. OE.
E. Lyall As you value the health of your own souls.
Welfare, safety; deliverance. ME-E17.
G. Chapman There is no mercy in the wars, your healths lie in your hands.
Condition of body in respect of its vigour and soundness. Freq. with qualifying adjective, as good health, bad health, delicate health. M16.
bill of health: see BILL noun3. mental health condition of a person or group in respect of the functioning of the mind. not for one's health colloq. (orig. US) for serious (financial) motives.
V. Glendinning He was..nervous about his health and suffered from asthma.
A toast drunk in a person's honour. L16.
T. S. Eliot Now I'll propose a health Can you guess whose health I'm going to propose?
Comb.: health camp NZ an outdoor camp for children of poor physique; health care the maintenance and improvement of personal health; health centre a local headquarters of medical facilities; spec. one containing the surgery and offices of a group practice; health club an establishment providing facilities for gymnastic exercises, massage, etc.; health farm (orig. US) a place where visitors stay for an intensive course of dieting etc.; health food food, usu. produced by non-artificial methods, eaten for its supposed health-giving properties; health insurance insurance against loss of earnings through illness or to cover the cost of medical treatment; Health Maintenance Organization (chiefly US) an organization which administrates a form of comprehensive health care on the free market, paid for by a predetermined fixed insurance fee per customer; health officer: charged with the administration of health laws and sanitary inspection; health physics the branch of radiology that deals with the health of those working with radioactive materials; health resort a place, such as a spa, resorted to by visitors for the benefit of their health; health salts magnesium sulphate or other salts taken in effervescent form as a mild laxative; health service the aggregate of public medical facilities available to members of a community; health visitor a trained person who visits people, esp. expectant mothers and the elderly, in their homes to give them advice on their health.