What's the difference between hygiene and purity?

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.

Purity


Definition:

  • (n.) The condition of being pure.
  • (n.) freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; as, the purity of water, of wine, of drugs, of metals.
  • (n.) Cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt.
  • (n.) Freedom from guilt or the defilement of sin; innocence; chastity; as, purity of heart or of life.
  • (n.) Freedom from any sinister or improper motives or views.
  • (n.) Freedom from foreign idioms, or from barbarous or improper words or phrases; as, purity of style.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fluorination with [18F]acetylhypofluorite yields 6-[18F]fluoro-L-dopa with 95% radiochemical purity; fluorination of the same substrate with [18F]F2 yields a mixture of all three structural isomers in a ratio of 70:16:14 for 6-, 5-, and 2-fluoro compounds.
  • (2) We have compared two new methods (a solvent extraction technique and a method involving a disposable, pre-packed reverse phase chromatography cartridge) with the standard method for determining the radiochemical purity of 99Tcm-HMPAO.
  • (3) The purity and configuration of each isomer of the free acid and N-chloroacetylated derivative were ascertained by: (a) paper chromatography in five solvent systems, (b) elemental analysis, (c) Van Slyke nitrous acid determination of alpha-carbonyl carbon, and (d) Van Slyke ninhydrin determination of alpha-carbonyl carbon, and (e) optical rotation.
  • (4) The observed purity under the selected conditions ranges from 80%-99% and is in accordance with the estimates of the purities made on the basis of the simultaneously recorded pulse shapes.
  • (5) When PMC purified to greater than 99% purity were cultured in methylcellulose with IL-3 and IL-4, approximately 25% of the PMC formed colonies, all of which contained both berberine sulfate-positive and berberine sulfate-negative mast cells.
  • (6) The Nazi party’s office of racial purity claimed that the Jewish character was essentially drug-dependent.
  • (7) It is suggested that more attention be paid to the 'purity' of scales if meaningful interpretation is to be made in treatment assessment.
  • (8) Based on the ratio of plasma membrane marker enzyme activity determined in the nuclear preparation, the purity of the isolated nuclei was ascertained.
  • (9) In contrast to high-purity commercial concentrates, fibronectin was considerably concentrated.
  • (10) The curiously double nature of the virgin in this tale, her purity versus her duplicity, seems unquestionably related to the infantile split mother, as elucidated by Klein--a connection explored in an earlier paper.
  • (11) Using 14C-labelled nitrous bases as starting substrates, labelled nucleosides and nucleotides can be obtained with the 75-80% yield that have radioactive purity of 95-99%.
  • (12) Purity was controlled by disc electrophoresis on polyacrylamide e gels at pH 4.3 and by two dimensional immunoelectrophoresis, respectively.
  • (13) The enzyme obtained by this procedure has both the biochemical and the spectral properties of EPO and shows a reasonable degree of purity, as judged by its rz value.
  • (14) Intact Golgi apparatus have been isolated with good purity from rat testis by a simplified sucrose gradient technique.
  • (15) Finally the higher purity degree of monoclonal antibodies in the cell culture supernatant is also a major advantage of serum free media.
  • (16) Once availed of the fallacy that athletes are role models, there’s a certain purity that feels almost quaint in an era of athlete as brand.
  • (17) A sensitive and specific analytical method was developed to determine the enantiomeric purity of naproxen.
  • (18) It imposes a standard of logical reductionism and methodological purity that not only violates the nature of psychoanalytic knowledge, but imposes an invalid standard of verification and scientific confirmation.
  • (19) Under these conditions, 79--100% of the cells were removed, yielding epithelial fractions of 65--90% purity.
  • (20) The purity of each sample was assured by measurement of the protein concentration of each sample and comparison of this parameter to known normal values for perilymph, serum, and CSF.