What's the difference between hygiene and hygienics?

Hygiene


Definition:

  • (n.) That department of sanitary science which treats of the preservation of health, esp. of households and communities; a system of principles or rules designated for the promotion of health.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Solely infectious waste become removed hospital-intern and -extern on conditions of hygienic prevention, namely through secure packing during the transport, combustion or desinfection.
  • (2) The socioeconomic and hygienic features of the patients' homes, some clinical variables, the therapeutic habits and the features of the foci were evaluated.
  • (3) This technique enables the demonstration of an hygienic parameter important for food microbiology within a short time.
  • (4) Significant correlations existed between the average number of leukocytes in the gingival exudate and the oral hygiene indices.
  • (5) Possible explanations of the clinical gains include 1) psychological encouragement, 2) improvements of mechanical efficiency, 3) restoration of cardiovascular fitness, thus breaking a vicous circle of dyspnoea, inactivity and worsening dyspnoea, 4) strengthening of the body musculature, thus reducing the proportion of anaerobic work, 5) biochemical adaptations reducing glycolysis in the active tissues, and 6) indirect responses to such factors as group support, with advice on smoking habits, breathing patterns and bronchial hygiene.
  • (6) The survival and the interactions of selected, hygienically relevant bacterial species in activated carbon filters was investigated.
  • (7) One abutment was used to evaluate each of nine oral hygiene instrumentation methods used for specified lengths of time or instrument strokes.
  • (8) It was shown that: although the oral hygiene level was very low and no dental treatments were performed, caries level was very low--although gingivitis rate was high, advanced periodontitis rate was low--the frequency of interincisive diastema (one subject out of 4 in the 15-19 age group), the progressive decline of tooth cutting, a traditional practice, in town people but the large extent of cola use (one adult out of two).
  • (9) More than 80% of the carriers who were interviewed ignored the directions about personal hygiene.
  • (10) During each test period one group chewed a combination of one piece sorbitol and one piece sucrose flavored gum five times per day, the second group correspondingly chewed xylitol and sucrose flavored gum, while the third group served as a no hygiene control group.
  • (11) A total of 1097 people in two communities in Chiapas, Mexico, were examined for trachoma, and information was obtained about personal and family hygiene.
  • (12) Consumers, dentists, dental students, dental assistants, dental hygienists, dental assistant trainees, and dental hygiene students in Massachusetts were surveyed for their attitudes toward the concept of expanded-duties auxiliaries.
  • (13) You won’t read about this in adverts for “feminine hygiene” (because of course having periods makes us dirty).
  • (14) The measures to be adopted are also stressed in view of a more strict control and protection of human and animal health together with environmental hygiene from Salmonella infection and other Enterobacteria which are increasingly met inhuman and animal pathology.
  • (15) Principal directions of hygienic investigations are determined.
  • (16) This outbreak underscores the importance of adopting appropriate industrial hygiene measures in a rapidly industrializing nation such as Taiwan.
  • (17) The oral hygiene practices and oral hygiene status were poorer among children from low than from high socioeconomic status.
  • (18) Kathon is an anti-microbial agent that is used as a preservative in cosmetics and bodily hygiene products.
  • (19) Oral hygiene education during pregnancy either is not provided or at best inadequately available.
  • (20) Preventive hygiene wards off or reduces these infections.

Hygienics


Definition:

  • (n.) The science of health; hygiene.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Solely infectious waste become removed hospital-intern and -extern on conditions of hygienic prevention, namely through secure packing during the transport, combustion or desinfection.
  • (2) The socioeconomic and hygienic features of the patients' homes, some clinical variables, the therapeutic habits and the features of the foci were evaluated.
  • (3) This technique enables the demonstration of an hygienic parameter important for food microbiology within a short time.
  • (4) Significant correlations existed between the average number of leukocytes in the gingival exudate and the oral hygiene indices.
  • (5) Possible explanations of the clinical gains include 1) psychological encouragement, 2) improvements of mechanical efficiency, 3) restoration of cardiovascular fitness, thus breaking a vicous circle of dyspnoea, inactivity and worsening dyspnoea, 4) strengthening of the body musculature, thus reducing the proportion of anaerobic work, 5) biochemical adaptations reducing glycolysis in the active tissues, and 6) indirect responses to such factors as group support, with advice on smoking habits, breathing patterns and bronchial hygiene.
  • (6) The survival and the interactions of selected, hygienically relevant bacterial species in activated carbon filters was investigated.
  • (7) One abutment was used to evaluate each of nine oral hygiene instrumentation methods used for specified lengths of time or instrument strokes.
  • (8) It was shown that: although the oral hygiene level was very low and no dental treatments were performed, caries level was very low--although gingivitis rate was high, advanced periodontitis rate was low--the frequency of interincisive diastema (one subject out of 4 in the 15-19 age group), the progressive decline of tooth cutting, a traditional practice, in town people but the large extent of cola use (one adult out of two).
  • (9) More than 80% of the carriers who were interviewed ignored the directions about personal hygiene.
  • (10) During each test period one group chewed a combination of one piece sorbitol and one piece sucrose flavored gum five times per day, the second group correspondingly chewed xylitol and sucrose flavored gum, while the third group served as a no hygiene control group.
  • (11) A total of 1097 people in two communities in Chiapas, Mexico, were examined for trachoma, and information was obtained about personal and family hygiene.
  • (12) Consumers, dentists, dental students, dental assistants, dental hygienists, dental assistant trainees, and dental hygiene students in Massachusetts were surveyed for their attitudes toward the concept of expanded-duties auxiliaries.
  • (13) You won’t read about this in adverts for “feminine hygiene” (because of course having periods makes us dirty).
  • (14) The measures to be adopted are also stressed in view of a more strict control and protection of human and animal health together with environmental hygiene from Salmonella infection and other Enterobacteria which are increasingly met inhuman and animal pathology.
  • (15) Principal directions of hygienic investigations are determined.
  • (16) This outbreak underscores the importance of adopting appropriate industrial hygiene measures in a rapidly industrializing nation such as Taiwan.
  • (17) The oral hygiene practices and oral hygiene status were poorer among children from low than from high socioeconomic status.
  • (18) Kathon is an anti-microbial agent that is used as a preservative in cosmetics and bodily hygiene products.
  • (19) Oral hygiene education during pregnancy either is not provided or at best inadequately available.
  • (20) Preventive hygiene wards off or reduces these infections.

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