hygiene

set of practices performed for the preservation of health
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hygiene
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hygiene

Summary

hygiene ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,957 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • hygiene's field of work was lifestyle[2].
  • hygiene's field of work was medicine[3].
  • hygiene's field of work was health[4].
  • hygiene's field of work was cleanliness[5].
  • hygiene is a type of preventive medicine[6].
  • hygiene is a type of health behaviour[7].
  • hygiene is part of cleaning[8].
  • hygiene's Commons category is recorded as Hygiene[9].
  • hygiene's country of origin is recorded as Greece[10].
  • hygiene comprises Q4137993[11].
  • 3000 BC marks the founding of hygiene[12].
  • hygiene's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Hygiene[13].
  • hygiene's main subject is hand washing[14].
  • hygiene's main subject is bathing[15].
  • hygiene's main subject is washing[16].
  • hygiene's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[17].
  • hygiene's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18].
  • hygiene's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[19].
  • hygiene's described by source is recorded as Sytin Military Encyclopedia[20].
  • hygiene's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21].
  • hygiene's described by source is recorded as Sytin Military Encyclopedia[22].
  • hygiene's described by source is recorded as Diccionario de Educación, Instrucción y Enseñanza[23].
  • hygiene's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[24].
  • hygiene's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia[25].
  • hygiene's described by source is recorded as Dresdner Hefte[26].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include preventive medicine[6] and health behaviour[7].

Origins

3000 BC marks the founding of hygiene[12].

Use and Application

hygiene comprises Q4137993[11]. hygiene is part of cleaning[8].

Influence

Things named for hygiene include ritual purity in Islam[27], an Islamic term[28].

Why It Matters

hygiene ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,957 views/month).[1] hygiene has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] hygiene is known by 49 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

Entities named for hygiene include ritual purity in Islam[27], an Islamic term[28].

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  9. [10] . biozonescientific.com. biozonescientific.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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